The Sun ONE Portal Server 6

Oakland, CA - June 3, 2002 -- Kivera, the leading provider of navigation software for enhanced location-based services, today announced its Map, Yellow Page, and Driving Directions channels built for the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 and the Sun ONE architecture for web services.

As the market leader in location-based services, Kivera has integrated its product offerings with the Sun ONE platform, enabling Kivera to strengthen its leadership position. By reducing costs and streamlining operational processes, Kivera's solution enables Sun customers to benefit from the most accurate location-based services.

As Wes Wasson, Sun's vice president of product marketing, Sun ONE middleware said, "The Kivera solution dovetails perfectly with Sun's vision of enabling services on-demand. Adding Kivera's capabilities to the Sun ONE Portal Server gives our mutual customers an ideal way to further personalize service delivery based on a user's location."

About Sun ONE Portal Server

The Sun ONE Portal Server -- the industry's first portal platform for building B2E, B2B and B2C portals -- enables the personalized delivery of content, services, business processes and applications for enterprises competing in today's competitive environment. It is a key component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) offering - an open, integratable product portfolio to enable the development and delivery of services on demand. With more than 385 customers worldwide, the Sun ONE Portal Server (formerly iPlanet Portal Server) has received significant industry recognition -- ranked #1 in portal marketshare by The Radicati Group ("Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2001-2005") and positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner's Portal Product Magic Quadrant ("Big Change Evident in 2H02 Horizontal Portal Product MQ," May, 2002) -- for two consecutive years.

About Sun ONE

Sun ONE is Sun's vision, architecture, platform and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Sun ONE validates, improves and extends current enterprise systems. Through its open, integratable architecture, Sun ONE extends current enterprise systems to help reduce costs and complexity while improving organizations' return on assets. Sun ONE represents a significant initiative in Sun's evolution to providing an open end-to-end architecture building on the company's offerings across systems and development environments. More information about Sun ONE is available at www.sun.com/sunone

About the Kivera Location Engine

The Kivera Location Engine enables a variety of location-based applications for voice applications, call centers, mobile phones, in-vehicle telematics units, and Web browsers. Customers use the Kivera Location Engine to power products and services for navigation, trip planning, real-time traffic information, emergency roadside assistance, and fleet tracking, and more. It is available with client APIs for Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000, Linux, Java, and XML. .Standard map databases supported include GDT North America, NavTech Full Coverage of North America and Europe, and TeleAtlas North America and Europe, and DMTI Spatial Canadian coverage.

About Kivera

Kivera is the location-based services (LBS) market-leader for mobile phones, in-vehicle navigation, telematics, call centers, and voice-interaction services. With a history of delivering dependable, high quality solutions, Kivera provides private-label LBS technology - enabling driving directions, mapping, and proximity searches - to wireless carriers, logistics and telematics organizations, on-board navigation companies, and Web, voice and wireless portals. Industry-leading customers and partners include: AAA, BeVocal, Cross Country Automotive Services, DENSO, HeyAnita, IBM, TeleCommunication Systems and Sun Microsystems. For more information, please visit www.kivera.com.

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