From:	 "Timothy Robb" <trobb@mediaboston.com>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: OpenMail Lives!!!
Date:	 Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:01:21 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAMSUNG SDS AND HP SIGN LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR OPENMAIL SOFTWARE

Agreement Establishes Path for Upgrades and New Features for Highly
Successful e-Mail Server Technology

SEOUL, South Korea and PALO ALTO, CA, November 13, 2001 -- Samsung SDS and
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) have signed a licensing agreement
allowing SDS to develop, enhance and sell messaging solutions built on HP’s
OpenMail e-mail server software.

SDS plans to develop products with new features providing existing OpenMail
software users an ideal path for upgrades. The first release of SDS’s
messaging server, called Samsung Contact, will be compatible with OpenMail
7.0 and all its latest features while also adding new enhancements. The new
server is expected to ship in the first half of 2002. A future version, also
planned for 2002, will include telephone access to e-mail, further
solidifying Samsung SDS focus on the unified communications market.

Based on OpenMail software’s highly reliable, secure and stable base, the
new SDS messaging solution will incorporate the latest technology developed
both internally and by partners. SDS’s goal is for the new solution to
become the leading unified communication product on the market.

“We are delighted to be able to extend our relationship with Samsung SDS, a
software partner of many years,” said Bill Russell, vice president, HP
Software and Solutions Organization. “HP will continue to focus its software
efforts on building world-class middleware, while SDS will focus on end-user
solutions developed using HP’s middleware.”

Initially released in 1990, OpenMail software has been used by more than 60
percent of Fortune 1000 companies. As the only e-mail server apart from
Microsoft® Exchange to support a wide range of important Microsoft Outlook
features, OpenMail software provides a cost-sensitive enterprise solution
allowing deployment of thousands or even millions of users on a single
server. SDS has used OpenMail software as the basis of its own internal
communication system for five years, providing reliable communications
across the company’s 230,000 users.

“We believe that an advanced and reliable communications package is going to
be essential to provide the advanced communication of the always-on mobile
Internet,” said Unsik Kang, vice president, Samsung SDS e-Solution Division.
“Smart messaging will also be essential as a way of linking our various user
applications.”

SDS will develop its new messaging application using a team of experts drawn
from Europe, the United States, Korea and China. Local sales and support
will be delivered in all major countries through specialized staff trained
in the new applications.

SDS’s messaging solutions will complement other SDS software in the market,
such as the ACUBE Enterprise Knowledge portal and the FormXpress workflow
solution, which HP intends to co-market and co-sell under a separate
reseller agreement. In addition, SDS intends to use the HP Netaction
middleware suite of products to develop applications.

SDS also has developed two novel Web- and Windows®-based e-mail clients
(previously known as Gemini), which will be released in the first quarter of
2002. These clients can be used stand-alone, with other e-mail solutions or
with the new SDS messaging server. In addition to e-mail features, the
clients are scheduled to include calendar and personal task management
functionality.

Further information about OpenMail software is available at
http://www.hp.com/go/openmail. Further information about SDS’s solutions is
available at http://www.SamsungContact.com or by sending an e-mail to
scontact@samsung.co.kr.

About Samsung SDS

Samsung SDS Korea, led by CEO Mr. Hong Ki Kim, delivers packaged solutions,
professional services, global marketing and Internet-focused services and
solutions. The company is the leading systems integration, systems
management and E-business company in Korea, employing 6,000 people worldwide
and generating $1 billion (US) in revenues. It has been ranked 38th in
Software 500, a survey of software companies around the world by a globally
recognized software magazine. For more information, please visit their Web
site at www.sds.samsung.com.

About HP

Hewlett Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and
imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its
benefits accessible to all. HP had total revenue from continuing operations
of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its
products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

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