Big Sky Technologies Makes Moves to Remain The Leading Provider
of Unified Messaging Solutions for The Lotus Notes Community

BOSTON, MA, April 4, 2001 — Big Sky Technologies announced today several new programs as part of their ongoing commitment to remain the leading provider of unified messaging solutions for the Lotus Notes community. Big Sky, recognized as the pioneer of Notes-based unified messaging, has been delivering unified messaging solutions to the Notes workgroup and enterprise since 1996.

"We are confident that Remark! Unified MessagingAssistant is the best unified messaging solution available today," says Ed O'Toole, Director of Sales at Big Sky, "and we want to increase its presence in the Lotus Notes community."

Toward this end, Big Sky is announcing several new programs. Big Sky has established a Best Price Guarantee program stating it will beat the price of any alternative unified or integrated messaging solution for Notes by at least 10%. "Bring us your best deal and we'll beat it by thousands of dollars," boasts O'Toole. Additionally, Big Sky is introducing a Unified Messaging/Pilot Starter Pack and a Competitor Migration Promotion.

The Unified Messaging/Pilot Starter Pack is a full featured unified messaging solution that includes a PCI voice-processing board, text to speech licensing, and a two port license for Big Sky's Remark! Unified MessagingAssistant . This bundle is ideally suited for deployment as an "E-mail Reader" in a pilot implementation but is expandable to a fully functional, enterprise-wide unified messaging solution. The Unified Messaging/Pilot Starter Pack and is available immediately from Big Sky at a price of $1,595.

Big Sky's Competitor Migration Promotion offers a 50% discount on the purchase of Remark! Unified MessagingAssistant licenses when migrating from another vendor's unified or integrated messaging solution. Big Sky now supports Dialogic voice processing boards for most Remark! unified messaging configurations. This added support enables a migration path for many customers by protecting their previous investment in Dialogic voice-processing hardware.

"Our competitors continue to think the Lotus Notes community will settle for a solution which bolts a voice mail system and a cumbersome administrative interface onto Notes. Big Sky has always understood the requirement for a good unified messaging solution to be tight integration with the Notes environment," states Bill Doll, president and CEO of Big Sky. "Our goal is to increase the number of customers using Big Sky's unified messaging solution. Some of our new customers will experience unified messaging for the first time while others will experience a marked improvement over their present system. Either way, we will continue to fulfill our commitment to the Lotus Notes community to deliver the best unified messaging solution at the most competitive price."

CONTACT:
Nicole Paolini
MARCOM Manager
Big Sky Technologies, Inc.
Ph: 858-715-5036
Fax: 858-715-5066
e-mail: npaolini@bigskytech.com

About Big Sky Technologies
San Diego-based Big Sky Technologies was founded in 1994 and is a privately held California corporation. The company is a leading supplier of solutions that integrate the telephone and voice with Lotus Notes and Domino for both the corporate data network and Internet. Big Sky provides a broad range of unified messaging and workgroup IVR solutions to enhance communications and collaboration within the workgroup and enterprise. For more information, please visit www.bigskytech.com.

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