Sybase plans to utilize Aether's AIM.net to extend Enterprise solutions to occasionally connected users via Palm Computing platform products
Demo Mobile, Coronado, Calif., April 12, 1999 - 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) and Aether Technologies, the leading independent provider of wireless data integration services, today announced a strategic alliance to help fuel the design, development and deployment of wireless enterprise solutions for the Palm Computing® platform. The two companies will work together to tightly couple Aether's wireless data solutions and services with the market-leading family of Palm Computing® connected organizers including the, Palm III™, Palm IIIx™, Palm V™ devices and the forthcoming Palm VII™ organizer which enables real-time wireless access to mission-critical enterprise data and Internet-based information.
The announcement is the first in a series of initiatives between 3Com and Aether which combine the benefits of the Palm Computing platform and the Aether Intelligent Messaging wireless development and transport environment, AIM.net. Aether is already delivering Palm Computing platform solutions utilizing the Enterprise Data Wireless Center, Aether's suite of software and services for companies that are rapidly extending their information management systems to mobile workers and clients across the nation. The Enterprise Data Wireless Center was also announced today and is detailed in a separate press release.
"We selected Aether to help us meet the increasing enterprise customer demand for secure and cost-effective, real-time wireless data access solutions," said Mark Bercow, vice president of strategic alliances and platform development for Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company. "Aether has demonstrated industry-leading expertise in the design, development and integration of real-world wireless solutions. By bringing our technologies together, we can help companies reduce communication costs, increase employee productivity and better serve their customers utilizing state-of-the-art wireless and handheld technologies.
"For large organizations looking to distribute real-time information wirelessly, this alliance will bring an important set of options to enterprise customers that complement wireless Palm Computing platform solutions such as the upcoming Palm VII," said David Oros, CEO of Aether. "The Palm Computing platform is already established as the most prominent handheld computing environment in both the enterprise and consumer markets. Combined with our AIM.net technology, corporations can take highly secure, customized wireless data solutions from development to deployment faster and easier than with any other option."
Sybase plans to leverage Aether's AIM.net technology with its MobiLink enterprise server synchronization to enable wireless synchronization for occasionally connected Palm organizer users. The integration of these technologies will make it possible to rapidly develop and deploy global wireless enterprise applications for Palm Computing platform devices such as the IBM Workpad PC Companion, Symbol SPT 1500 and SPT 1700 Series devices, Palm IIIx, Palm V organizers, and the forthcoming Palm VII device, targeting vertical industries such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and mobile industrial.
"We see a tremendous market need for the ability to access and distribute data wirelessly-both in integrating with today's mobile database applications and in fueling the future adoption of data-enabled mobile devices," said Terry Stepien, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Sybase. "The combination of Sybase's leadership in mobile enterprise solutions and Aether's wireless data expertise will help customers gain a key competitive advantage through new and innovative wireless solutions for the Palm Computing platform."
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