Extended Systems Teams with Reply Wireless to Offer Managed, Subscription-based Corporate Email

Business Wire, Nov 24, 2003

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BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 2003

Extended Systems (Nasdaq:XTND), a leading provider of mobile application solutions for the enterprise, announced today that the company is collaborating with Reply Wireless, a UK based wireless data subscription services company, to deliver quick, secure and cost-competitive corporate email through managed, subscription sales of Extended Systems' OneBridge Mobile Groupware.

Addressing demand from businesses that are not quite ready to invest the time or money associated with internal wireless email deployments, Extended Systems and Reply Wireless are opening the door to a new, global market segment.

"We're offering the corporate email capabilities of a highly sought after, industry proven product on a managed-service, subscription basis, eliminating IT implementation time, server costs, and license and maintenance fees," said Reply Wireless Sales and Marketing Director Robert Silver. "This makes wireless corporate email immediately accessible to businesses of every size and shape."

Reply Wireless is already actively marketing its managed corporate email service, known as Reply Mail, in the UK, France and Italy. Plans for a January launch in Australia are under way. While Reply Wireless will engage in some direct sales of Reply Mail, the company is counting on the strength of its distribution and reseller partnerships for widespread adoption and is actively recruiting new partners for the service. Exclusively offering Extended Systems' OneBridge technology as the core of its Reply Mail service, Reply Wireless has already purchased 3,000 OneBridge Mobile Groupware licenses from Extended Systems this quarter for its customers.

Culver Holdings, PLC, an investment company headquartered in London, was one of the first companies to sign up for Reply Mail. The company was specifically interested in the email push technology and advanced security features offered by the Reply Wireless service but sealing the deal were the low-cost, rapid deployment plan and the ability to instantly reap the benefits of corporate email.

"As soon as we heard that we could get 'push' email quickly and simply on the Palm and iPAQ devices that we already have in house, we knew that we had found the right solution," said Bruce Fireman, a Director at Culver Holdings.

About "Reply Mail"

Leveraging the capabilities of OneBridge Mobile Groupware, Reply Mail supports a variety of wireless devices (PDAs, Smartphones, Symbian, SyncML, WAP phones or laptops) and leading groupware applications (Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes). Utilizing IP-based push technology, Reply Mail offers up-to-the minute access to email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes and is compatible with any mobile network including GSM, GPRS, CDPD, CDMA, W-CDMA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Cradle sync is also supported.

Robust security features of Reply Mail include US Government-approved FIPS 140-2 standard compliant encryption technology, a combination of 1024-bit RSA and 128-bit AES for secure key exchange and symmetric key encryption, and two-tier authentication, including authentication with users' own Mail Server credentials (Exchange or Domino) and RSA SecurID authentication.

For additional product information or pricing, please see: http://www.replywireless.net or contact Reply Wireless at 44 8700 600 744. Included in the Reply Mail subscription service is 24X7 support.

About Reply Wireless

Reply Wireless Ltd was formed in 2002 by wireless industry experts to meet the market demand for managed wireless solutions. Reply Wireless delivers the benefits of mobility solutions to enterprises today, at a low total cost of ownership, by deploying the best solutions available as secure, managed services. We believe that companies should not have to develop in-house skills and resources to take advantage of wireless technology.

About Extended Systems

Extended Systems provides the expertise, strategy and solutions to help enterprise organizations streamline their business processes through mobile technology. The company's OneBridge mobile solutions suite enables companies to mobilize critical enterprise applications such as e-mail, field service, sales force automation (SFA), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM). Extended Systems has more than 3,000 enterprise customers worldwide and key alliance relationships with Ericsson, HP, Handspring, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Sharp, Siemens, Symbian and Toshiba.

Founded in 1984, Extended Systems has offices and subsidiaries in the United States and worldwide. For more information, call 1-800-235-7576 or visit the company Web site.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the success of Extended Systems' collaboration with Reply Wireless, the success of Reply Wireless' marketing efforts for its Reply Mail service and the success of Extended Systems' OneBridge Mobile Groupware solution. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the risk that Reply Wireless' marketing efforts will not be successful, continued growth in the markets for our products and mobile devices, the perceived and realized benefits of mobile devices, the timely development and acceptance of new products and technologies by Extended Systems and Reply Wireless, overall economic conditions and the level of information technology spending by existing and potential customers and other risks as detailed from time-to-time in Extended Systems' SEC filings, including its 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed September 29, 2003 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed in fiscal 2004.