20th Aug 2007 07:00
Synchronica plc (AIM: SYNC.LN), the mobile synchronisation anddevice management company, is pleased to announce that it has signed acontract with Sun Microsystems, Inc (NASDAQ: SUNW), the leading globalsupplier of network computing solutions, servers, storage, softwareand services, to licence key components of the Synchronica MobileGateway for integration with products from its Communications andApplications software divisions. £ This contract is a breakthrough for the Company and marks thesuccessful conclusion of the negotiations, announced previously, witha major hardware manufacturer. £ Sun will pay an initial licence fee of US $1.8m for the firstmajor version upon Sun's acceptance of the software. Sun can buyadditional licences on a per-user basis at a price of up to $2.40 peruser per annum. The contract offers Sun the option to consolidate thelicences into a one-off fee of up to $4.6m per major version. Inaddition, Synchronica has signed a support contract with Sun coveredby a base fee of up to $150,000 annually, plus a fee of up to $4,500per support incident. £ Sun plans to use Synchronica Mobile Gateway's core SyncMLtechnology to enable over-the-air synchronisation of the Sun Java(TM)Communications Suite with any mobile device supporting SyncML, thedominant industry standard incorporated into more than 1.3 billiondevices from leading manufacturers including Nokia, SonyEricsson andMotorola. The Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite occupies a strongniche in the communication and collaboration market, providingservices for major global enterprises and mobile operators, and isreported to power more than 240 million mailboxes worldwide. £ Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said: "This deal marksthe beginning of a long term, strategic relationship with Sun and is amajor milestone in Synchronica's development. Sun is a key driver ofthe global software industry and, in particular, in thetelecommunications and enterprise software markets. IntegratingSynchronica's SyncML technology with Sun's core software products willcreate a scalable route to market and broaden the adoption of oursoftware in the marketplace." £ Synchronica's agreement with Sun is focused on SyncMLsynchronisation and does not include the mobile email module of MobileGateway preserving the potential for further business with Sun and itscustomers. Synchronica is already in contact with several mobileoperators interested in licensing the mobile email module of MobileGateway for use with the Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite. £ This deal follows on closely from the announcement in July forSynchronica to licence a core component of its Mobile Manager Suite toSmartTrust AB, a leader in Mobile Device Management solutions, for afee of EUR 800,000 and engineering resource providing additionalrevenues of up to EUR 200,000 per year. £ Notes to editors £ The Communications division of Sun plans to use the SyncMLsynchronisation engine of Synchronica's Mobile Gateway with the SunJava(TM) Communications Suite enabling users to synchronise calendar,contacts, and tasks over-the-air, with a wide variety of mobiledevices compatible via the SyncML (OMA DS) industry standard.Synchronica will also provide SyncML synchronisation clients for PalmOS and Windows Mobile Smartphones, as well as a client provisioningmodule using the industry standard OMA CP (Client Provisioning),providing over-the-air configuration of mobile devices. £ The Applications division of Sun has road-mapped to useSynchronica's SyncML synchronisation engine and Java ME (MobileEdition) SyncML client to enhance the Sun Java(TM) ApplicationPlatform Suite with an end-to-end synchronisation infrastructure,enabling third party developers to build arbitrary datasynchronisation solutions. Using the Synchronica technology, Sun willenable its customers to build customised synchronisation solutionsthat can, for example, include over-the-air synchronisation of ERP orCRM data to the Smartphones carried by sales or support personnel. £ About Synchronica £ Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standardsynchronisation and device management solutions for mobile operators,device manufacturers, and enterprises. Its product portfolio rangesfrom data synchronization (DS) to device management (DM) and firmwareupdate over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile devicemanagement suite Mobile Manager and the Push Email and synchronizationsolution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK with a developmentcentre in Germany, and offices in Hong Kong and Dubai Synchronica plcis a public company traded on the AIM list of the London StockExchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available atwww.synchronica.com. £ About Synchronica Mobile Gateway £ Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is a carrier-grade middlewaresolution providing push e-mail and synchronisation services. Based onthe open industry standards SyncML and IMAP, Mobile Gateway iscompatible with a wide range of mobile devices from leading devicemanufacturers, such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Apple,without requiring additional client software to be installed on thedevice or behind the firewall. Today more than 400 device models and1.3 billion devices support the industry standard. £ Synchronica offers Mobile Gateway to operators, devicemanufacturers, and enterprises, enabling their mobile users to sendand receive email from consumer mailboxes (AOL, Gmail, and others), aswell as to synchronise their calendar and contact data with businesssystems like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java(TM)Communications Suite. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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