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Stalker Software Takes Messaging to the Bank

Clear2Pay Nederland Financial Customers Now Benefit from Secure and Reliable Messaging Provided by CommuniGate Pro

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) May 19, 2003 - Stalker Software, Inc., the technology leader in messaging solutions, today announced that identity management and financial services provider Clear2Pay, will offer Stalker Software's flagship product, CommuniGate Pro, to its financial customers. Clear2Pay Nederland's Financial Logistics System (FLS), integrated with CommuniGate Pro provides end users with a secure and reliable way to exchange financial transactions and business communications.

CommuniGate Pro and Clear2Pay Nederland's FLS solution provide financial institutions with a comprehensive client delivery channel for transmitting payments and receiving financial statement reporting information. FLS offers a valuable stepping stone towards fully integrated direct links between financial institutions, their mid/back offices and their customers. CommuniGate Pro allows financial institutions using FLS to securely transfer large amounts of money and facilitate bulk payments for their corporate and government users. CommuniGate Pro's unique Dynamic Cluster gives institutions the availability, speed and robustness to complete the numerous high-volume financial transactions processed between banks and their clients each day.

"Financial institutions have historically struggled with unreliable and difficult mail servers. We recently switched to CommuniGate Pro servers to give our customers the price/performance ratio, scalability and reliability they need," said Peter Kwakernaak, CEO of Clear2Pay Nederland. "CommuniGate Pro is an essential component of our customers' complete payment gateway and communications solutions, and the Dynamic Cluster capability provides the speed and reliability they need."

CommuniGate Pro Dynamic Cluster is a multi-tier architecture that seamlessly runs as one robust messaging system. This allows Clear2Pay Nederland to easily increase capacity by adding servers without interruption and scale for unlimited numbers of users with 99.999 percent availability. In addition, the architecture enables load balancing and server redundancy for fast performance and availability without worry of failure -- imperative for the financial market.

"The banking industry must rely on secure operations across all transactions and interactions with customers, and CommuniGate Pro provides the secure integrated-messaging capabilities necessary for a complete communications solution," said Jacinta Tobin, vice president of business development, Stalker Software. "Our agreement with Clear2Pay Nederland gives us unparalleled access to leading enterprises in the financial services and banking markets and continues our strategy of developing a worldwide presence through a strong network of integration and reseller partners."

Supporting more than 30 hardware and operating system combinations including UNIX, Windows, Linux, AS/400, mainframes and Mac OS X, CommuniGate Pro offers the most advanced, robust messaging solution, optimized to provide e-mail, collaboration, wireless and unified messaging all on a single message store. Because of the product's open standards-based architecture, CommuniGate Pro provides high-performance integrated messaging, supporting many types of content on a centralized platform efficiently and reliably.

 

About Stalker Software

Founded in 1993, Stalker Software, Inc. is based in Mill Valley, California. Stalker Software is the technology leader in messaging solutions for more than 30 major computer platforms. The company's core technology merges security, reliability, scalability and a wide range of integrated services, with ease of deployment and maintenance. More than 5000 customers worldwide, ranging from global telcos and ISPs to educational institutions and corporations, service millions of accounts with CommuniGate Pro.

 

For more information:

Stalker Software, Inc.
Alice Liptrot - director of sales and marketing
T: (800) 262-4722 or (415) 383-7164by fax
F: (415) 383-7461
E:
Visit the Stalker Software Web site at www.stalker.com

Clear2Pay Nederland
Peter Kwakernaak
Burgemeester Stramanweg 105F
NL-1101 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 20 452 96 50
F: +31 20 452 91 61
E:

Clear2Pay NV/SA
Conny Dorrestijn - VP Marketing and Communications
E:
P: +32 15 79 52 00

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