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Openwave Receives Top Marks for Messaging in Radicati's 2008 Report

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Radicati Group Ranks Openwave as the Market Leader in its 2008 Hosted Email Providers Market Quadrant

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - March 24, 2008 --

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), one of the world's leading software innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services which converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced that leading market research firm, Radicati Group has ranked Openwave as the market leader and top player in the firm's annual 2008 Messaging Platforms for Hosted Email Providers Market Quadrant. The report analyzes key vendors in the messaging space, based on market share and functionality, and is intended for investors, organizations, service providers and vendors who need to make informed decisions about messaging platforms for the hosted email providers market.

"As a pioneer in the mobile and broadband messaging arena, Openwave continues to drive innovation with its focus on emerging converged services, and has earned recognition in the coveted 'market leader' quadrant of our latest research report," said Sara Radicati, Radicati Group. "Openwave has had great success targeting the largest service providers worldwide who are looking for tight integration between their wireline and wireless businesses, providing them secure, personalized and branded email and messaging services."

"Openwave is pleased to be recognized as a market leader in the messaging industry," said Alon Schwartzman, director of product management, Openwave. "Our converged communications portfolio, which includes our new Rich Mail solution, robust Email Mx messaging platform, and proven Edge Gx Anti-Abuse offering, gives operators the ability to monetize their messaging services, accelerate time-to-market, and enable a superior multi-screen experience by offering a central point of access for consumers' communication needs."

The Radicati Market Quadrant provides a competitive view of key players in the Messaging Platforms for Hosted Email Providers Market. Radicati Market Quadrants are designed to illustrate how individual vendors fit within specific technology markets at any given point in time. Vendors are ranked according to installed base market share and richness of functionality into four major quadrants: Top Players, Trail Blazers, Mature Players, and Specialists.

Openwave Email Mx and Rich Mail
The Openwave Email Mx solution is the basis for Openwave's converged communications platform, which enables new messaging services to meet the evolving messaging demands of today's users, across mobile and broadband. It is designed to facilitate monetization of advanced messaging services on any device. Through its extensions technology, communication service providers have the ability to "plug in" value-added and best-of-breed processing software such as anti-virus, anti-spam, message reformatting, indexing or lawful mail interceptions efficiently and cost effectively.

Openwave's messaging solutions are optimized to work with Openwave Rich Mail, an AJAX-based Web interface that offers a superior innovative end-user experience including integrated messaging, intelligent single-click access to content, address book, mobile access and real-time notifications, as well as targeted advertising and merchandising.

Openwave offers a complete portfolio of converged communications products and services including mobile messaging, voice, real-time call control, and integrated PC-based applications, supported by its industry leading converged communications platform.

About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is a global software innovator and the inventor of the mobile internet. Openwave established many of the foundational patents that allow mobile devices to connect to the Internet. Over the years, the company has built a patent portfolio of approximately 200 patents covering many innovations spanning smart devices, cloud technologies and unified messaging. Today Openwave provides all-Internet Protocol (all-IP) mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers to create and deliver smarter services.

Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave mobilizes the Internet with data-driven solutions that comprehensively enhance IP traffic and increase the value of the mobile network. Openwave arms its customers with a 360-degree view of network activity plus the tools to help them proactively optimize network resources (Congestion Control), react to user behavior with smarter data plans and services (Price Plan Innovation), and deliver a contextually relevant messaging experience (Converged Messaging).

Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1943 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, material contained in quotations, increased demand for some of the Company's products and expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management. These forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Notwithstanding changes that may occur with respect to matters relating to any forward looking statements, Openwave assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected: (a) the ability of Openwave's products, including Openwave Contextual Merchandising, to deliver expected benefits; (b) the ability to develop and commercialize new products; (c) industry and customer adoption and acceptance of new products; (d) risks associated with the development and licensing of software generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of our software; and (e) increased global competition and pricing pressure on our products.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the periods ended September 30, 2007 and December 31, 2007 and any subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave's website at www.openwave.com.

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