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  DON LISTWIN JOINS PHONE.COM AS PRESIDENT AND CEO; ACCEPTS BOARD MEMBER SEAT
  

  Founder Alain Rossmann Remains as Chairman of the Board and Takes Role as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - September 11, 2000 -- Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHCM) today announced that Don Listwin, formerly Executive Vice President at Cisco has joined Phone.com as president and CEO. Alain Rossmann, Phone.com's founder and the man often credited as the "father of the wireless Internet," remains as the chairman of the board of directors of Phone.com, but will now move from president and CEO into a role where he can focus his attention on market vision and strategy as the executive vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development. Also announced today is the promotion of Phone.com's chief financial officer, Alan Black, to senior vice president of Corporate Affairs. Black will also retain his position and responsibilities as chief financial officer.

Phone.com and Software.com (Nasdaq: SWCM) recently announced plans to merge. The merger will create a global powerhouse that will provide a broad range of carrier-class software to wireless and wireline carriers, portals and Internet service providers. At the time of the merger announcement, the two companies announced that Listwin would join the combined entity as President and CEO. It was subsequently agreed that Listwin would begin by assuming the role of President and CEO of Phone.com to drive the merger and integration planning activities as soon as possible.

"I saw this as an opportunity to work with the incredible talents of Alain and John MacFarlane, and to do what I love best - take an industry and restructure it, while working side by side with talented people," said Listwin.

"We are fortunate to have an executive of Don's caliber and experience on board. He has an amazing track record building new businesses, including building the service provider business at Cisco. His expertise and experience in acquiring and integrating companies is unmatched," said Rossmann. "I am pleased that in my new role I will continue to look for ways to solve our customers' problems through advanced technology and to move the industry to the next level."

"Additionally, in recognition of Alan's outstanding contributions to Phone.com, I am delighted to announce his promotion to Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs," added Rossmann. "During his three-year tenure, his credits include a resoundingly successful IPO, the smooth integration of seven acquisitions, as well as the phenomenal growth of a global presence. Alan has been a champion in helping the company achieve its exponential growth and financial milestones."


About Phone.com
 
Phone.com is a leading provider of software, applications, and services that enable the delivery of Internet-based information and voice services to mass-market wireless telephones. Using its software, wireless subscribers have access to Internet- and corporate intranet-based services, including e-mail, news, stocks, weather, travel and sports. In addition, subscribers have access via their wireless telephones to network operators' intranet-based telephony services, which may include over-the-air activation, call management, billing history information, pricing plan subscription and voice message management. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has regional offices in Boston, Belfast, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. Visit www.phone.com for more information.

About Software.com
 
With more than 116 million seats licensed, Software.com is a leading supplier of carrier-scale Internet infrastructure software for communication service providers worldwide. Software.com provides the scalable platform that enables service providers to deploy next-generation business and consumer Internet services, including email, IP unified messaging, mobile mail and mobile instant messaging.

In addition, Software.com has established strategic relationships with Cisco Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nortel Networks and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). Founded in 1993, with headquarters in Santa Barbara, California, the company has regional operations in the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Australia. Visit www.software.com for more information.


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
 
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the development of Phone.com's and Software.com's products and services and future operating results that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of the management of Phone.com and Software.com and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: failure of the transaction to close due to the failure to obtain required regulatory or stockholder approvals; difficulties associated with successfully integrating Phone.com's and Software.com's businesses and technologies; costs related to the merger; failure of the combined company to retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees; failure of the combined company to manage its growth and the difficulty of successfully managing a larger, more geographically dispersed organization; failure of the combined company to successfully manage its changing relationships with customers, suppliers, value added resellers, and strategic partners; failure of the combined company’s customers to accept new product offerings; and failure to achieve anticipated synergies in the merger. Other factors that could affect the combined company's actual results include the progress and costs of the development of its products and services and the timing of market acceptance of those products and services.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to each company’s respective filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, where applicable, their most recent filings on Form 10-K and 10-Q, both companies registration statements on Form S-1, as amended, and the joint proxy statement/prospectus to be filed by the companies as described below. Phone.com’s and Software.com’s filings with the SEC are available to the public from commercial document retrieval services and at the Web site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.

Where You Can Find Additional Information:

Investors and security holders of both Phone.com and Software.com are advised to read the joint proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed merger when it becomes available because it will contain important information about the transaction. The joint proxy statement/prospectus will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Phone.com and Software.com. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the joint proxy statement/prospects when it is available and other documents filed by Phone.com and Software.com with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov. The joint proxy statement/prospectus and these other documents may also be obtained for free from Phone.com or Software.com.

Phone.com and its executive officers and directors may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Phone.com's stockholders with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. Information regarding such officers and directors is included in Phone.com's Proxy Statement for its 1999 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 1999. This document is available free of charge at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov and from Phone.com.

Software.com and its executive officers and directors may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders of Software.com with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. Information regarding such officers and directors is included in Software.com's Proxy Statement for its 2000 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2000. This document is available free of charge at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov and from Software.com. A copy of the Stockholder Rights Plan adopted by each company will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission shortly.


 
The Phone.com name and logo and the family of terms carrying the "UP" prefix are trademarks of Phone.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All other company, brand and product names may be marks that are the sole property of their respective owners.

For further information:
 
Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

Software.com, Inc
Mike Musson
+1 (805) 882 2470 x289
mike.musson@software.com

Phone.com, Inc.
Leslie Nakajima
+1 (650) 562 0200
lnakajim@corp.phone.com

  



 
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