Paris, France and San Francisco, CA, December 06, 2002 - Indigo Software, the leading provider of SIP-based solutions, has today announced their strategic partnership with the French company Alertim, the most prominent European provider of push solutions. The partnership is aimed at integrating the Indigo presence and instant messaging technology with Alertim's Push Server for presence-enabled event notification. The resulting offering provides failproof delivery of any type of alert onto a comprehensive range of media depending on user preference.

A SIP standard-based solution, the Alertim-Indigo co-development capitalizes on the tremendous success of Microsoft Windows® Messenger and allows enterprises and notification service providers to instantly reach distributed workforces, mobile agents or simply everyday consumers.

The media supported by legacy notification systems so far have been fax, voicemail, email and SMS. Now, Indigo-powered notification systems can manage user presence information in real time and selectively deliver urgent messages and alerts to the aforementioned media and finally also to Microsoft Windows® Messenger.

According to a predefined list of delivery modes, the new solution will first detect recipientŐs location and accessible media, and then send him the relevant alert via IM on Windows Messenger or via SMS on a mobile phone, for example. This smart delivery not only enables fast and efficient notification but also avoids costly duplication of notifications on multiple channels.

"We are thrilled about this opportunity to provide the Indigo presence and IM dimension to the long-established Alertim solution," said Marijke van Remortel, Director of Sales and Marketing at Indigo Software. "With people wanting or needing to remain on the ball wherever they may be, the power of presence and IM ultimately ensures timely delivery of content that can be extremely important," continued Marijke.

"Presence and IM are key technologies in busy corporate environments, typically, and Indigo is clearly the leader in this field," stated Thomas Gyemant, Director at Alertim. "Alertim is very pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with Indigo Software in providing alerts and notifications on a broad range of media to a continuously growing customer base." For further information, please contact :

Thomas Gyemant Director Alertim +33 1 44 51 79 10 thomas.gyemant@alertim.com

Geneviève Materne Head of Public Relations Indigo Software, Inc. +32 2 235 0957 genevieve@indigosw.com

About Indigo Software

With operations in both the US and Europe, Indigo Software is a forward-thinking software developer, architecting new Internet communications software toolkits for a broad range of application developers, integrators and communications ASPs. Capitalizing on its award-winning, expandable communications software framework, Indigo provides a unique ensemble of Internet-infrastructure software components based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and other Internet-genuine technologies sharing SIP's endowments. Devising unprecedented communications software tools for converged networks, Indigo gives an ever-expanding service providers market the power to transform the experience of integrated communications for a generation of customers with Internet savvy. For more information, visit www.indigosw.com

About Alertim

Founded in 1993, Alertim designs, develops and commercializes Push solutions for all markets and in particular banking and finance with its popular BoursAlerte solution. Alertim introduces the Alertim Push Server, which is dedicated to the automatic creation and implementation of Push service content for a broad range of applications such as CRM, e-marketing, e-commerce, logistics, gaming, risk analysis, human resources, etc. as well as the various sectors of the economy (industry, banking, finance, insurance, tourism, transport, É) For more information, visit www.alertim.com Windows^® Messenger is a registered trademark of Microsoft^® Corporation (NYSE:MSFT).

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December 6, 2002 - Indigo Software and Alertim Team Up to Deliver Critical Information through Revolutionary Push Server