SAN FRANCISCO (March 24, 2003) — Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH), a global leader in digital communications software and services, today announced that Tiscali S.p.A., the Internet Communication Company, has selected the Critical Path™ Personal Information Management (PIM) Suite, including personal address book, calendar and file sharing, to provide its 7.3 million active users with wireless, voice and Web access to telephone numbers, email addresses, calendar events, to-do lists and other personal information. Critical Path's messaging and identity management solutions are the foundation for many of Tiscali's innovative Internet Services. Tiscali powers its email service with the Critical Path™ Messaging Server and, in 2001, Tiscali enhanced its services with additional Critical Path offerings such as CP Directory Server™ for unified, authenticated access to all of Tiscali's latest services
"We selected Critical Path because of the reliability, scalability and security of its solutions," said Salvatore Pulvirenti, Corporate VP of Information Systems for Tiscali. "Moreover, its software is integrated on one Communications Platform and easily interoperates with our existing infrastructure, enabling us to rapidly deliver new services without requiring extensive custom development."
With Critical Path's PIM suite, which Tiscali purchased in the fourth quarter of 2002, Tiscali provides its customers a central location for storing telephone numbers, email addresses, calendar events, and the data associated with them. Instead of having to keep personal information up to date on a number of devices, a user can enter this information once in the address book and access it from any of those devices. Tiscali also purchased the Critical Path Presentation Server™, which is unique in its ability to tie the messaging applications together and give users an integrated, uniform experience as they move between personal communications devices, from mobile phones, wireless PDAs, and laptops to personal computers.
"Tiscali's choice is a further confirmation of the quality of our solutions, which are designed to offer unparalleled levels of scalability and integration," said Mario Bobba, vice president southern Europe at Critical Path. "Tiscali's ability to create custom-bundled services in real-time provides them with the flexibility to quickly offer a range of services tailored to the individual needs of their consumer and business subscribers."
About Tiscali
Tiscali S.p.A. (Nuovo Mercato, Milan: TIS, Nouveau Marché, Paris: 005773) is the Internet Communication Company providing access, content and business applications, as well as innovative communications services. As of 31 December 2002, Tiscali had 7.3 million active users and 13.7 million monthly unique visitors (source: Nielsen NetRatings) to the Tiscali portals, confirming the company as one of the leading web properties in Europe. Tiscali's corporate website can be found at www.tiscali.com.
About Critical Path, Inc.
Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) is a global leader in digital communications software and services. The company provides messaging solutions — from wireless, secure and unified messaging to basic email and personal information management — as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry's lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Solutions are available on a hosted or licensed basis. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 190 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 35 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco. More information can be found at www.criticalpath.net.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements by the Company and its executives regarding endorsements of our product and service offerings by our customers and partners, the performance, scalability and interoperability of our product and service offering's, market and customer requirements and the ability of our products and services to meet the business needs of our customers. The words and expressions "look forward to," "will," "expect," "plan," "believe," "seek," "strive for," "anticipate," "estimate" and similar expressions are intended to identify the Company's forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, our evolving business strategy and the emerging and changing nature of the market for our products and services, our ability to deliver on our sales objectives, the ability of our technology and our competitors' technologies to address customer demands, changes in economic and market conditions, unplanned system interruptions and capacity constraints, software and service design defects. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in more detail in the Company's filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) made from time to time, including Critical Path's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 30, June 30,and September 30, 2002,all as may be amended from time to time.
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