NaviSite Expands its Managed Messaging Services for Mobile Users; Relationships with Good Technology and Sprint Nextel Corp. Enable Broader Mobile Messaging Capabilities for NaviSite Customers

Business Wire, Oct 18, 2005

ANDOVER, Mass. -- NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ SC: NAVI), which deploys, manages and enables software applications and IT infrastructure for mid- to large-sized companies, today announced expanded mobile messaging capabilities for its customers. In addition to currently supporting Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry platform, NaviSite has recently developed relationships with both Good Technology and Sprint Nextel Corp. for managed messaging offerings.

Through its relationship with Good Technology, NaviSite will leverage GoodLink Hosted Edition for Exchange and GoodLink Enterprise Edition giving customers anytime-anywhere access to Microsoft Exchange email, contacts, calendar, notes and tasks on a variety of handheld devices in a secure and reliable manner.

"We are excited about our relationship with NaviSite," said Marque Watson, Director, Hosted Services, Good Technology. "Our GoodLink product, with its handheld flexibility and enterprise class security and IT management capabilities, is the perfect complement to NaviSite's 24x7 Managed Messaging services. Together, we give our customers a complete, reliable mobile messaging and PIM solution for almost any platform they choose."

NaviSite has also developed a relationship with wireless network provider, Sprint Nextel Corp., enabling NaviSite to combine wireless services with its Managed Messaging platform for an end-to-end mobile messaging solution.

"These relationships are a testament to our ongoing commitment to deliver comprehensive and highly-available Managed Messaging services to our customers," said Mark Clayman, senior vice president, Service Delivery, NaviSite. "We know that messaging systems are critical to our customers, and we understand the importance of having reliable, anytime-anywhere access to email and other critical business applications."

NaviSite has been providing hosted, managed messaging services since 1993 (previously, as Interliant) and today, supports more than 60,000 users. NaviSite provides Managed Messaging services for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino platforms. The Company also offers a variety of key, complementary messaging services, including messaging archival and retrieval, instant messaging, anti-spam and anti-virus, and data protection/disaster recovery services.

For more information on NaviSite's Managed Messaging services, please visit http://www.navisite.com/sublevel.aspx?id=68.

About NaviSite, Inc.

NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ SC: NAVI) deploys, manages and enables software applications and infrastructure for middle-market organizations, which include mid-sized companies, divisions of large multi-national companies and government agencies.

The Company offers a full range of services including design, implementation, optimization, upgrade, application development, fully hosted and remote application management, managed services, content delivery, colocation, and Software as a Service enablement.

The Company offers vertical expertise in the manufacturing/distribution, financial services, healthcare/pharmaceutical, services, publishing/media & communications, and public sector industries.

NaviSite was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, with offices and data centers across the United States, and in the UK and India. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com or call 978.682.8300.

This release contains forward-looking statements that address a variety of subjects, including the success and performance of NaviSite's service offerings. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The following important factors and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: NaviSite's success is dependent on its ability raise sufficient cash and to achieve and maintain profitability; NaviSite's recent acquisitions may not produce expected cost savings, operational efficiencies or revenues; NaviSite's products, technologies and resources may not successfully interoperate with the technology, resources and/or applications of third parties; further slow down in general economic conditions; the loss of customers due to the shutdown of their businesses; decreased or delayed purchase patterns of prospective or current customers or loss of current customers and market consolidation; the decreased renewal rate of our customers; increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite competes; the effects of any future acquisitions of businesses or technologies; changes in the uses of the Internet; and possible failure of systems or internal infrastructure. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by NaviSite with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of NaviSite. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made by us.

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