New iAnywhere Customer Wins Highlight Momentum for Pylon Mobile Email Solutions

New iAnywhere Customer Wins Highlight Momentum for Pylon Mobile Email Solutions

SYNOPSIS: Atea, Eastman Chemical Company, Linde Gas and Rockwool leverage Pylon Anywhere to give workforces anytime, anywhere access to email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks. New version of Pylon Anywhere delivers improved functionality and globalization enhancements.

DUBLIN, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), today announced that Atea, Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN), Linde Gas and Rockwool have selected Pylon Anywhere(TM) to enable wireless access to email and personal information management (PIM) data-anywhere, anytime. Pylon Anywhere accelerates communication, decision-making and customer responsiveness by keeping workers in touch, whether they're on the road or simply away from their desks. iAnywhere today also unveiled the next generation of Pylon Anywhere, delivering extensive globalization enhancements including Unicode support and non-English clients, clustering improvements, expanded groupware integration, the extension of push capabilities and broader mobile device support.

Mobile email is rapidly becoming ubiquitous, with 50% of enterprises estimated to enable wireless email within two to three years and 75% within three to four years(1). As testament to the growing momentum, iAnywhere has seen steady demand for its award winning line of Pylon products, adopted by more than 2,500 corporations in 50 countries.

"Our success is due in large part to our focus on providing enterprises with an easy-to-use solution with the mobile functionality they need most-the ability to wirelessly access and synchronize their email, calendars and contacts," said Martyn Mallick, senior product manager at iAnywhere. "We want to make sure that they can do this with the greatest ease of use, in highly secure environments and across a wide variety of mobile devices."

Atea

Atea, based in Sweden, is the Nordic region's leading company within sales, distribution and integration of IT products and IT infrastructure. Atea's business concept is to simplify and rationalize customers' management of IT products throughout the entire life cycle. Atea employs about 850 people in the Nordic region and is owned by the management of Atea and the international investment company 3i, WM-data.

Atea has experienced firsthand the momentum in the wireless email market. "Pylon Anywhere's highly stable platform, coupled with its extensive device support has allowed us to deliver powerful solutions to a number of customers, using the device of their choice and communicating in their preferred language," said Per Westerberg, Business Area Manager, Mobility at Atea.

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical Company, headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, manufactures and markets chemicals, fibers and plastics worldwide. The company employs approximately 12,000 people and had 2003 sales of US $5.8 billion.

"From day one we have seen steady growth of employees adopting Pylon Anywhere as their solution of choice for mobile email and PIM," said David Hrivnak, Mobile Projects Manager, Eastman. "In a recent survey of our users, an overwhelming majority believed Pylon iAnywhere is the best mobile email solution they have seen and it is now the company standard. Using Pylon iAnywhere, our mobile workers are more productive and IT benefits from being able to enforce passwords, user policies and software on smartphones."

Linde Gas

Linde Gas Division, a member of the Linde Group, offers products that cover a vast range of applications in industry, medicine, environmental protection and research and development. State-of-the-art application technology, specialist services and a whole range of hardware are the reason why over 1.5 million customers in 50 countries choose Linde.

"We are extremely satisfied with the level of functionality the iAnywhere solution brings to our mobile users," said Auguste Goldman, vice president of Global IT, Linde Gas. "We're excited about the ability to easily add and manage new servers with Pylon Anywhere's enhanced clustering capabilities. Now we can easily support the growing demand for push-enabled mobile email within our organization."

Rockwool Polska

Rockwool Polska is a business unit of the Rockwool Corporation and manufacturer of natural mineral wool thermal, acoustic and fire insulation products for the construction and technical installations industries. With over 60 years in business, the Rockwool Group operates 23 factories in fourteen countries across Europe, North American and Asia, employing a total of 7,400 people.

"Our mobile workers love the ability to sync wirelessly and get their email anytime, anywhere," said Krzysztof Gadomski, IT manager, Rockwool. "With Pylon Anywhere, the information our users need is at their fingertips. When they're out of the office and between meetings, they can check and respond to their email and access contact information they need to follow up on pending deals and other activities in progress.

Moreover our mobile users have access to additional applications that give full information about our customers, orders and their execution, sales and overdue, etc. It's changed the way our users do business."

The Next Generation-Pylon Anywhere 6

Raising the standard of mobile email solutions, iAnywhere today announced the next generation of Pylon Anywhere, delivering extensive globalization enhancements including Unicode support and non-English clients, clustering improvements, expanded groupware integration, the extension of push capabilities and broader mobile device support.

Pylon Anywhere 6: New Feature Overview
Expanded Globalization Support
* Unicode support for non-English language character sets
* Clients now offered in French, German, Italian and Spanish

Scalability Through Improved Clustering
* Easy to manage, built-in support for a multi-server installation,
enabling deployment to thousands of users on a single system

Better Integration with Groupware Servers
* Domino enhancements include the ability to provide push capabilities
for non-Windows Domino installations and the ability to query the
Domino global address list from the mobile device in real-time
* Leverage Active Directory and Exchange integration to simplify account
creation and configuration
* Additional deployment options to leverage existing firewall and proxy
configurations
* Full two-way e-mail synchronization with IMAP groupware servers

Web-based Server Administration
* Enables remote user and group management, log viewing and profile
settings from a Web browser

Extended Mobile Device Support
* Supports hundreds of mobile devices including the latest smartphones:
Treo 650, Sony Ericsson P910, Nokia 7710
* Better serves European and Asian markets with an XHTML client and
support for SyncML 1.2-compliant devices

Availability


Pylon Anywhere 6 is expected to be available in December 2004. Interested parties can visit http://www.ianywhere.com/pylon_anywhere to find additional product information, demonstrations and free evaluation software, as well as register to attend a Pylon Anywhere webcast scheduled for Thursday, December 16th at 2:00 PM ET.

About the Pylon Product Family

Pylon is the industry's most comprehensive solution for extending Lotus(R) Notes and Microsoft Exchange(TM) environments to mobile devices. The Pylon family includes Pylon Pro(TM) and Pylon Conduit(TM), which provide desktop- based synchronization, as well as Pylon Anywhere and Pylon Application Server(TM), which provide server-based synchronization. Together this family of products meets the needs of individuals and organizations to extend critical email, information and applications to mobile devices.

About iAnywhere

iAnywhere is the worldwide market leader in mobile and embedded databases, mobile middleware and mobile and remote device management. More than 15,000 customers and 1,000 partners rely on the company's award-winning enterprise products, including SQL Anywhere(R) Studio and XcelleNet(R) frontline solutions. In addition, its AvantGo(R) mobile Internet service has millions of registered subscribers. iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY). Visit http://www.ianywhere.com/ for more information.

Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, Pylon, SQL Anywhere Studio, Afaria, AvantGo, and XcelleNet are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Special Note: Statements concerning iAnywhere Solutions' product market, relationships with its customers and new products are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could ultimately affect such statements are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the Company's web site).

Crystal King
iAnywhere Solutions
(978) 287-1524
crystal.king@ianywhere.com

Scott Malinowski
Citigate Cunningham
(617) 374-4223
smalinowski@cunningham.com

(1) Wireless E-Mail: TCO Versus ROI: Part 1, 6 October 2004, META group



Source: iAnywhere Solutions, Inc.

CONTACT: Crystal King of iAnywhere Solutions, +1-978-287-1524,
crystal.king@ianywhere.com; Scott Malinowski of Citigate Cunningham, +1-617-
374-4223, smalinowski@cunningham.com

Web site: http://www.ianywhere.com/
http://www.ianywhere.com/pylon_


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