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OmniSky and CompuCom Team Up
... The Team Will Provide Enterprises With Turnkey Wireless Services for Handheld Devices
Posted by WDN, May 23, 2001
OmniSky Wireless E-mail and Internet Service Becomes a Key Offering
Within CompuCom's ConvergeMobile(TM) Portfolio
OmniSky Corporation (Nasdaq:
OMNY), a leading global provider of award-winning wireless applications and services, and
CompuCom Systems, Inc (Nasdaq:
CMPC), a leading digital infrastructure solutions provider, announced today an agreement to
jointly provide large-scale Fortune 1000 enterprises with turnkey mobile business services that support mobile professionals and their
handheld devices.
The objective of the alliance is to enable large enterprises to empower their mobile professionals through wireless access to their
corporate e-mail (Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes) behind the firewall and Internet. As part of the agreement, CompuCom will
include OmniSky in its ConvergeMobile(TM) Solutions portfolio.
"Together, OmniSky and CompuCom offer enterprise customers industry-leading wireless mobile services and a cost-efficient,
knowledgeable, single-point-of-contact for their wireless application and handheld needs," said Andy Simms, Vice President of sales
for OmniSky. "By leveraging CompuCom's infrastructure and integration expertise with Fortune 1000 customers, OmniSky can more
rapidly empower enterprises with tools that provide wireless access to corporate e-mail and business-critical applications."
OmniSky and CompuCom together provide mobile professionals with secure access to corporate data, mobile business
applications, and Internet functions that improve productivity, reduce employee downtime, and increase client service. CompuCom
leverages client-proven core competencies to design and deliver comprehensive mobile business solutions. CompuCom's
ConvergeMobile(TM) services simplify the deployment, integration and ongoing support of the mobile business infrastructure by
applying innovative technologies from partners like OmniSky, Handango, and ThinAirApps.
"OmniSky's expertise in delivering wireless communication services enhances our ability to deliver an integrated suite of wireless and
mobile solutions to our clients," said Daniel Elliott, CompuCom's Vice President of Mobile Business Solutions. "Our people, processes
and technologies are focused on reducing the complexities associated with operational transitions, new technology adoption and
ongoing management. CompuCom's services are intended to accelerate the alignment of information technology with an organization's
business objectives through assessment, design, implementation and support services."
CompuCom's ConvergeMobile(TM) Business Solutions include:
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Consulting Services
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Customization and Deployment
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Wireless and Mobile Application Integration
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Outsourcing Services
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Infrastructure and Integration
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Partner Solutions
This relationship reflects OmniSky's strategy to provide easy connectivity to major enterprise applications, enabling enterprises to
increase productivity by extending wireless services to their mobile workforce. The company's strategy supports carriers, online
service providers, value-added service providers, and systems integrators who want to offer valuable wireless services to their
customers. The CompuCom and OmniSky combination is designed to help companies turn down time into productive time and stay on
top of business and personal communications.
About CompuCom Systems, Inc.
CompuCom Systems, Inc. is a leading digital infrastructure solutions provider. CompuCom's clients include Fortune 1000
enterprises, vertical industry leaders, major technology equipment providers, leading edge systems integrators and wireless technology
providers. CompuCom's technology solutions reach more than one million end users a year, helping companies master complex
technologies. CompuCom leverages people, process and technology to offer best in class solutions that enable, optimize and operate
the digital technology infrastructure. CompuCom is a Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) partner company, and is accessible via the
Internet at www.compucom.com.
Certain statements contained in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements, and as a result could have an adverse impact on CompuCom's
business, financial condition and operating results. These factors include, among other things, revenue generation, customer
acceptance, management of growth and future acquisitions, attraction and retention of key management and technical personnel,
competition, vendor's direct marketing initiatives, dependence on vendors and reliance upon vendor programs potential fluctuations in
operating results, working capital financing, and the matters discussed in CompuCom's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other public
filings and disclosures. Readers should refer to those documents and should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements.
About OmniSky
OmniSky (Nasdaq:OMNY) is a leading global provider of wireless applications and services for users of mobile devices.
OmniSky's award-winning service offers mobile professionals access to up to six e-mail accounts, including corporate e-mail via
Microsoft Outlook as well as POP3 e-mail, the ability to search and surf the Internet, a broad range of optimized Web content, and
the ability to securely conduct e-commerce transactions. The OmniSky service is available on the Palm V and Palm Vx, Handspring
Visor Platinum, Visor Prism and Visor Edge, HP Jornada 520/540 Series Pocket PCs and the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC, and can be
purchased online or in over 1,500 retail outlets across the U.S. Service coverage includes over 167 major metropolitan areas within
the United States, encompassing over 172 million people. Through a joint venture with News Corporation, OmniSky now offers its
wireless service through U.K. and German beta programs and has plans to expand into additional international markets this year.
In 2001, OmniSky will offer its proprietary wireless applications and services, including Communications, Content Delivery, and
Location-Based Services to telecommunications carriers, online service providers, hardware manufacturers, and other third parties.
OmniSky will enable these companies to offer differentiated wireless data solutions on any mobile device, from WAP-compliant cell
phones to PDAs and laptop computers, and on the most widely available wireless networks, such as CDPD, CDMA, GSM and
GPRS.
OmniSky is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For more information visit www.omnisky.com or call 415/764-2200.
The foregoing information contains forward-looking statements that are based on OmniSky's current expectations. These
expectations are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ materially from
those referred to in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ include, but are not
limited to, risks related to: market acceptance of an early stage service such as OmniSky's; delays in the development or introduction
of new versions of OmniSky's service; technical difficulties with networks or operating systems on which OmniSky relies to deliver its
service; changes in technologies that affect the wireless, Internet or handheld mobile device industries; the ability of an early stage
company such as OmniSky to manage its growth; the protection of OmniSky's proprietary information; release of competitive products
and services; and general economic downturns. These and other risks are more fully described in OmniSky's periodic reports and
registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the Commission's web site at
http://www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the information contained in this release together with other publicly available information
about OmniSky for a more informed overview of the company.
CONTACT:
OmniSky Corporation, San Francisco
Amanda Higgins, 415/764-2257
ahiggins@omnisky.com
or
CompuCom Systems Inc.
Julie Tunis, 972/856-3802
jtunis@compucom.com
or
AB Isacson Assoc. for CompuCom
Gigi Ilkay, 212/529-4500 ext. 209
gilkay@abipr.com
Stacey Castiglia, 212/529-4500 ext. 206
scastiglia@abipr.com
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