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Press Release

Joe Romano
Partner
HighGround, Inc.
781-279-1320 x 208
jromano@highgroundinc.com

Industry Leader SYWARE, Inc. Announces Major New Worldwide Release of Award-Winning Rapid Application Development Software for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC Devices

CAMBRIDGE, MA, U.S.A. —January 24, 2005—SYWARE, Inc., announced a new software version, called “Visual CE 9”, that empowers mobile users around the world to rapidly create feature-rich database applications—without programming— that can be deployed on any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Windows CE device— wherever they need to work. Today, tens of thousands of loyal customers in the global Microsoft CE development market rely on SYWARE Visual CE solutions. As a result, developers, and non-technical users, in a wide variety of markets can use Visual CE 9 to mobilize information between the enterprise and the field to rapidly convert PC or paper-based processes into fully mobile applications 10x faster than other market alternatives. Business or user-specific data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and automatically synchronized.

“Competitive solutions that claim to ‘rapidly mobilize applications’ are typically costly, require the user to have a programming background, are not easy-to-use, take too much time to develop, or they force companies to expand IT departments to manage software and data between desktops and servers to devices,” said Sy Danberg, President, SYWARE, Inc. “The Visual CE product line solves these problems, while meeting the specialized needs of the mobile user to provide seamless access to essential information on or offline, at any time or place,” Danberg added.

Visual CE 9 software includes the following new features:
  • Events: set focus, lose focus, value changed
  • Wizard to create distribution disks
  • Custom Menu bars
  • Macros can call other macros
  • Image control can display HTML
  • Search command buttons can do exact match searches
  • Search command buttons no do not have to prompt user from search value
  • Center aligning of controls (in addition to left and right)
  • left/center/right alignment on text controls

  • Image controls connected to text fields and cameras: (SYWARE takes pictures and generates file names)
  • Command button to set focus to a particular control
  • Command button to show/hide some other control
  • mEnable on and mEnable synch command buttons can suppress the dialog
  • Moving files via mEnable wireless connection
  • Import/Export Command buttons allow you to specify filename
  • @serialnumber
  • Cut and paste multiple controls

Pricing & Delivery

Visual CE 9 applications can be created for any Microsoft Windows Mobile, Windows CE, or Pocket PC handheld. Visual CE Lite Edition is priced at $19.99. Visual CE Personal Edition, with full forms design, relational database, and synchronization capabilities, is priced at $129. Visual CE Professional Edition includes all the features of Personal Edition and royalty-free distribution rights and it is available for $399. Visual CE Enterprise Edition it is priced at $599 and includes all the features of the Professional Edition plus SYWARE’s Report CE software and an mEnable (wireless connectivity) license. To evaluate or purchase SYWARE products, visit: http://www.syware.com/lp/visualCE/

About SYWARE, Inc.

SYWARE empowers mobile users to collect data and create feature-rich database applications that can be deployed on any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Windows CE device— wherever they need to work. Industry or user-specific data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and synchronized, without programming. SYWARE provides low cost of ownership, rapid deployment and return-on-investment without requiring users to expand IT departments to manage software and data between desktops and servers to devices. SYWARE removes obstacles to commerce and enables users to share data seamlessly over wireless, LAN, WAN or Internet connections in a wide variety of market sectors, including healthcare, transportation, government, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, energy, aerospace and other markets.

The cornerstone of SYWARE’s product line is Visual CE®, the award-winning database and forms development tool for Windows Mobile and Windows CE handhelds. A diverse, international panel of industry experts awarded SYWARE Pocket PC magazine’s “Best Software Award 2004” in the database category, as Visual CE is used by small-to-medium-sized businesses around the world— and trusted by FedEx (NYSE: FDX), ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE: CVX), Cargill, Inc., Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and the U.S. Geological Survey. SYWARE is also the creator of mEnable®, a flexible software architecture for real-time wireless access to enterprise data located on corporate servers, and FoneDB®, the first database software for Microsoft Smartphone devices. For media inquiries, contact Joe Romano, Partner, HighGround, Inc. at 781-279-1320 x 208 or jromano@highgroundinc.com. For sales inquiries, visit www.syware.com or contact Frank Yacano, Director of Business Development, SYWARE, Inc. email or 617-497-1375.