Sun Microsystems Selects Synchronica to Add Mobile Synchronization to Product Suites

Commitment to Open Industry Standard SyncML Expands Reach of Sun's Products to Mobile Phones

Royal Tunbridge Wells, San Francisco, August 20, 2007. - Synchronica plc (AIM: SYNC.LN), international provider of industry standard mobile synchronization and device management solutions, today announced that Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) has agreed to license Synchronica's synchronization and client provisioning technology for Sun's communication products.

As part of the agreement, Sun plans to incorporate key components of Synchronica's Mobile Gateway for industry-standard wireless synchronization of contacts, calendars, tasks, and other enterprise data to Sun Java System Communications Suite and Sun Java System Application Platform Suite.

The Sun Java System Communications Suite is currently used by 240 million email boxes within leading service providers and large organizations for messaging and collaboration services, such as email, IM, and calendaring.

"We're excited to be working with Synchronica because this relationship extends Sun's reach beyond the already wide range of supported desktop clients to a large number of mobile devices", said Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "This collaboration also enables our application server developers to build feature-rich and scalable mobile applications that support both connected and disconnected operations."

Sun plans to use the core SyncML synchronization engine and the back-end connectors of the Mobile Gateway product to synchronize SyncML-enabled devices with the Sun Java System Communications Suite or Sun Java System Application Platform Suite.

Furthermore, Sun intends to use the provisioning module (OMA CP) enabling over-the-air configuration of mobile devices, reducing the need for manual device configuration. In addition, Sun is planning to use Synchronica's SyncML clients for Windows Mobile / Pocket PC and Palm OS, enabling industry-standard synchronization on smartphones that do not support SyncML out of the box.

"Open industry standards are the only way to provide secure synchronization capabilities to the widest range of smartphones and feature phones on the market today", said Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. "Synchronica has long been committed to supporting industry standards, such as SyncML, and today's agreement with Sun validates that open industry standards are the way of the future for technology innovation."

Commenting further on the license agreement, Carsten Brinkschulte said: "The licensing of core elements of our Mobile Gateway product to a major software infrastructure provider, such as Sun, represents a significant breakthrough for Synchronica. We look forward to a strong and ongoing strategic relationship with Sun."

About Synchronica

Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and device management solutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers, and enterprises. Its product portfolio ranges from data synchronization (DS) to device management (DM), and firmware updates over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile device management product set Mobile Manager Suite and the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the U.K., with a development center in Germany and presences in the USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at www.synchronica.com

About Mobile Gateway

Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade push email and synchronization services for virtually all mass market feature phones and smartphones being used by subscribers today. It is based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contact and calendar synchronization and works with the built-in email and synchronization clients found in more than 1.5 billion phones. The new email-to-SMS functionality expands its reach to virtually every phone in use today. Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, connecting to popular services, such as AOL or Gmail. For business users, it provides a unique zero footprint architecture where users simply register their devices and instantly start to receive corporate email on their phone, without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall. Business mailboxes supported include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java System Communications Suite.

About Sun Java System Communications Suite

More information about the Sun Java System Communications Suite is available here

About Sun Java System Application Platform Suite

More information about Sun Java System Application Platform Suite is available here

For more information, please contact:

Nicole Meissner
Chief Marketing Officer
Tel.: +44 1892 552 780
Mobile: +44 7977 256 412
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nicole.meissner@synchronica.com