Press Release

July 30, 2003

IBM Lotus Instant Messaging Available for BlackBerry

BlackBerry Enables Enhanced Ease Of Use And Deployment

Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced support for the IBM Lotus® Instant Messaging (IM) Everyplace 3 application on RIM's Java™-based BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™. Together, Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace and BlackBerry® can help mobile professionals and workgroups increase coordination, improve responsiveness and enhance customer service.

RIM and IBM have collaborated over the past several months to test and optimize performance of Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace on the BlackBerry wireless platform. By extending Lotus Instant Messaging to BlackBerry, enterprise customers gain a secure, integrated, wireless instant messaging solution on the same BlackBerry handhelds and service that already support their wireless needs for other email, phone, SMS, organizer, web and intranet applications. Key IM features are now available wirelessly to BlackBerry enterprise customers, including presence awareness, chat (one-to-one and one-to-many), instant messaging between both desktop and other mobile users, IM contact list access, IM/email/SMS alerts, profile editing, multilingual support, single name/password sign-in, behind-the-firewall security and message logging.

"Instant messaging is no longer just a convenient application for chat, but has evolved into an imperative and mission-critical business tool for connecting people and accelerating business," said Ken Bisconti, Vice President, Lotus Workplace products, Lotus Software, IBM. "By providing Lotus IM support for BlackBerry, users can instantly collaborate in a secure, standards-based, and wireless environment, staying productive and competitive while on the move."

"IBM is a leading supplier of corporate IM and collaboration solutions and the BlackBerry platform is ideally suited to extend those solutions to mobile professionals. Through support for open standards on both Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace and the BlackBerry platform, enterprise customers can leverage their existing technology investments and provide their employees with wireless instant messaging to help improve both individual and workgroup productivity," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. "Wireless instant messaging is easy to use and a natural fit for BlackBerry handhelds with their thumb-typing keyboards, large screens and advanced wireless connectivity features; and getting started is also easy with support for over-the-air application deployment introduced in the latest release of BlackBerry Enterprise Server."

BlackBerry is an open and extensible platform that enables support for Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace on two fronts: handheld and server. Both the Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace client application and RIM's Java-based handhelds support the J2ME MIDP standard and the BlackBerry Browser supports standard mark up languages such as WML, cHTML, XHTML Basic and HTML. On the back-end, Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace is also supported through the Mobile Data Service feature of BlackBerry Enterprise Server™. BlackBerry Mobile Data Service enables standards-based connectivity from BlackBerry handhelds to back-end corporate applications and data using standard protocols including HTTP and HTTPS and provides wireless optimization for common mark-up languages. Through support for open standards, the BlackBerry platform allows enterprise customers to deploy additional wireless enterprise applications within their existing, approved BlackBerry architecture and security model and without any additional infrastructure to learn or support.

Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace 3 for BlackBerry is available today through IBM Passport Advantage Resellers.

About Lotus Software from IBM

Lotus software from IBM sets the standard for truly innovative software and services that reflect the brand's unique representation of the new ways individuals and businesses work together to achieve success. Lotus software is further redefining the concept of conducting business through practical Knowledge Management, e-business and other groundbreaking ways of connecting ideas, thinkers, buyers, sellers and communities around the world via the Internet. Lotus software is marketed in more than 80 countries worldwide through direct sales and extensive Business Partner channels. Please visit www.lotus.com.

About Research In Motion (RIM)

Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

Research In Motion, RIM and BlackBerry are trademarks or registered trademarks of Research In Motion Limited in the United States and other countries IBM, Lotus, Lotus Instant Messaging, and Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation and/or IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. All other brands, products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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