Press Release

May 18, 2004

Flowfinity Announces Partnerships to Expand Its Global Coverage for Providing Business Applications for BlackBerry

Wireless Enterprise Symposium, CHICAGO - Flowfinity Wireless, a leading provider of wireless business application products and platforms, today announced that it has more than doubled its partner base since this time last year. These partnerships represent the assembly of a network of resellers, solution providers and ISVs. Flowfinity provides wireless business application products and solutions for the BlackBerry® platform from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM). These partners include: Aston Business Solutions, ATSG, CGI, Delta Indigo, Dymacon, ebf GmbH, Ericom, Fraser Valley Wireless, GaleForce, GPXS, Ibelem, InterNoded, IPC, Lan2Lan, MBizTech, Micro Solutions, oh22, Regard, Silicon Cowboys, TenDigits, and Wireless Solutions.

These 21 partners represent global coverage of all major markets for the BlackBerry wireless platform. Three of these partners, CGI, ATSG, and Internoded, are exhibitors at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Chicago this week.

Flowfinity provides its partners with packaged products and a development platform to enable them to provide customers with comprehensive solutions for common business needs by all enterprises and specific business requirements in vertical markets.

"Flowfinity products and platforms provide us with a rich set of capabilities to help our consultants and developers to deliver innovative solutions for vertical markets such as the construction, government and financial services industries," said John Heinz, President, Advanced Technologies Support Group (ATSG). "We are pleased to offer our customers solutions that are specific to their industry and effective for their needs."

Flowfinity partners provide their customers with solutions that improve the productivity of enterprise Field Forces resulting in a number of economic benefits ranging from reduced operational costs to increased sales revenue. CGI, one of the world's largest systems integrators is an expert in extending existing enterprise systems into powerful wireless business applications.

"We are leveraging Flowfinity's platform to create both packaged products and customized solutions for our customers," said Nadeem Javeri, Manager, Mobile Solutions of CGI. "We are delivering powerful .NET applications for BlackBerry that connect with existing systems such as Siebel, SAP, JD Edwards, Remedy and Heat."

Flowfinity also provides its partners with sales and marketing support and training, technical support and training, and reseller discounts. With its expanding global footprint, Flowfinity and its partners are able to meet the growing global demand for business applications for BlackBerry. Many of Flowfinity's partners are also partners with Research In Motion and its many carrier partners.

"Flowfinity has assembled an impressive list of partners from around the world to develop and deploy innovative applications for BlackBerry," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. "Flowfinity’s community of ISVs, systems integrators and resellers will help provide BlackBerry customers with both commercial and customized business applications as well as implementation services."

About Flowfinity Wireless
Flowfinity Wireless provides business applications to improve the productivity of mobile professionals by enabling them to securely, reliably receive and use information anytime and anywhere without having to "ask for, then wait for" it. Flowfinity uniquely combines high usability and capability with painless integration, resulting in an unrivaled total cost of ownership. Flowfinity products are used for field service, inspections, sales, and inventory management use cases in a wide variety of vertical markets. Flowfinity is technology partners with Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft, Borland, Sun and IBM. Today, Flowfinity has a growing base of customers and partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Reach Flowfinity Wireless at flowfinity.com.

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