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  OPENWAVE CONTRIBUTES OPEN USABILITY INTERFACE TO OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
  

  Developer Library Simplifies Application Design and Helps Developers Create Mobile Applications for Multiple Devices
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 30, 2002 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications, today announced that it has contributed its Open Usability Interface server-side programming library and source code to the open source developer community through SourceForge.net (www.sourceforge.net) under a Mozilla Public License (MPL 1.1). Recognizing the power of the open source community, Openwave is contributing Open Usability Interface as a code base for developers for developing mobile applications that can be accessed through multiple networks and mobile devices.

Open Usability Interface is a server-side programming library that that abstracts the presentation of content from the underlying platform implementation details. In practice, developers code to the capabilities that each platform offers. Open Usability Interface presents the best possible user experience by adapting the application user-interface for the particular device and gateway requesting the service. Open Usability Interface also offers application developers a migration path from today’s mobile web standards to the standards-based technologies of the future. Open Usability Interface is available for download at http://oui.sourceforge.net.

“Developing mobile applications can be complex due to differences in browser presentation models and gateway deployments,” said Gina Centoni, vice president of developer marketing for Openwave. “Open Usability Interface addresses these critical interoperability challenges by simplifying the development process. We are happy to contribute the code to the open source community, making it available to all developers who are building mobile applications for multiple devices.”

Openwave released this library in beta version as the Openwave® Usability Interface in November 2001, allowing developers to write one set of code and have content dynamically optimized at runtime for Openwave and Nokia browsers. Now, as an open source project, Open Usability Interface offers developers a choice of programming front-ends including Java, WML-based tags, and XHTML-based tags built on JSP tag libraries, plus beta versions of PHP, ASP/COM and ASP .Net, giving developers flexibility and preserving developers’ existing programming environments.

"Open Usability Interface simplifies the development process with one template for all browsers Now we can create applications that are optimized for multiple browsers and handsets, without requiring a lot of extra work,” said Andrea Trasatti, senior developer for Bware, a leading provider of wireless solutions, focusing on mobile value-added products and services. "Open Usability Interface is the solution we have been waiting for."

Open Usability Interface also allows developers to extend the libraries to support multiple mobile browsers and devices (beyond Openwave and Nokia). Open Usability Interface gives developers the ability to write applications using XHTML-based tags and display those applications on today’s WML-based browsers. This capability minimizes the number of markup languages that need to be simultaneously supported and allows for a smoother transition to XHTML Mobile Profile and WAP 2.0.

SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source development Web site, with the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open Source developers, including project hosting, version control, bug and issue tracking, project management, backups and archives, and communication and collaboration resources.

Openwave fosters a thriving global developer community through a variety of programs. Technical support can be found on the Web at http://developer.openwave.com. Openwave’s developer forum, open to all Openwave developers, can be found at http://developer.openwave.com/support/index.html, and contains multiple on-line discussion groups moderated by Openwave’s developer support staff where developers can discuss industry issues and share tips and tricks for mobile Internet development. Openwave regularly showcases innovative mobile applications in the Openwave Wireless Application Showcase at http://www.openwave.com/alliances/developer/showcase/current/.


About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.

 
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