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Openwave Receives Top Marks in Messaging for the Second Year in a Row in Radicati Group's 2009 Report

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Radicati Group Ranks Openwave as a Market Leader in its 2009 Hosted Email Providers Market Quadrant

BARCELONA, SPAIN, Mobile World Congress - February 16, 2009 --

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 a market leader and top player in the firm's annual 2009 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 lead innovation with its focus on emerging messaging services, and has again earned recognition in the coveted 'market leader' quadrant of our latest research report," said Sara Radicati, President of the Radicati Group. "Openwave continues to make great strides in 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 for the second year in a row," said Dan Nguyen, director of product management, messaging, Openwave. "Our converged communications portfolio, which includes our Rich Mail solution, robust Email Mx messaging platform, Smart Call services and proven Edge Gx Anti-Abuse offering, gives mobile and broadband operators the ability to monetize their messaging services through leading offerings that accelerate time-to-market and meet 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
Openwave today announced Email Mx 8.0, the latest addition to the Openwave Email Mx family, which now supports mobile email using the IMAP IDLE standard, and high capacity mailboxes. 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 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, the aforementioned focus on network-based offerings and the anticipated impact on Openwave's financial statements. 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.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in the Company's 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, 2008, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2008 and December 31, 2008, 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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