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MailFrontier Business Soars in Third Quarter
Channel Strategy and Product Innovation Boosts Customer Growth and Bookings

PALO ALTO, Calif. - November 2, 2005 – MailFrontier™, the leader in email security, today announced a record quarter including unprecedented bookings and customer growth, and a thriving channel program. MailFrontier continues to lead the market by offering enterprises the most choice in deployment options, including MailFrontier Gateway™ Appliance and MailFrontier Gateway™ Server. MailFrontier Gateway Appliance is the only email security appliance product on the market to offer customers either Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems giving businesses maximum flexibility. MailFrontier customers continue to cite manageability – less than 10 minutes a week – and emerging threat protection as factors for choosing MailFrontier over competitors in the market.

“MailFrontier's extraordinary business growth can be attributed to several factors. The fact that our product is easy to administer differentiates us from competitors, particularly those in the mid-enterprise market where business values MailFrontier's easy manageability and emerging threat protection,” stated Anne Bonaparte, president and CEO of MailFrontier. “We're invested in a 100 percent channel strategy which we expect to reach by July next year. Our continued aggressive channel program is a critical factor driving MailFrontier's accelerated market growth.”

MailFrontier continued to see strong demand for its email security offerings as evidenced by the following third quarter business highlights:

  • Increased worldwide bookings 73 percent Q3 2005 over Q3 2004
  • Expanded aggressively in European markets where bookings increased 215 percent Q3 2005 over Q3 2004
  • Continued aggressive channel program with channel partners accounting for more than 70 percent of new business booked
  • Added more than 75 channel partners in the last year, expected to double again in the next year
  • Increased channel management staff to manage expanding channel program.
  • Attributed record new business growth to the introduction of MailFrontier Gateway Appliance, accounting for 65 percent of new business booked
  • Exceeded 1,500 enterprise customer benchmark and continued to lead the mid-enterprise market segment adding organizations including MetroHealth System, Rock-Tenn, SDSU Research Foundation, University of New Haven, and The Villages
  • Maintained customer renewal rates at greater than 98 percent

About MailFrontier
MailFrontier is the leading provider of email security solutions that protect organizations against threats such as spam and viruses, provide control for content compliance and enable consolidation of email infrastructure. The MailFrontier platform provides power without complexity. The company has more than 1,500 enterprise customers, including HealthEast Care System, Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc., OfficeMax, Pier 1 Imports, San Francisco Giants, SAP and Wyndham International. Founded in 2002, MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For additional information, go to www.mailfrontier.com .
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