Objectworld Delivers the Industry's Most Flexible Unified Communications Solution

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Tue Aug 5, 2008 9:58am EDT

Support for 95% of the Existing PBX Market and All Major E-Mail
    Platforms (Including Google Gmail and Novell GroupWise) Further
    Strengthens Objectworld's Unified Communications Solutions for
                   Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses
OTTAWA, Canada--(Business Wire)--
Objectworld Communications Corp., today announced the industry's
widest support for multiple PBX and unified messaging systems
integrated with its award-winning Objectworld Unified Communication
(UC) Server(R) software. By adding support for multiple PBXs, as well
as adding support for Google Gmail and Novell(R) GroupWise to its
unified messaging capabilities, Objectworld enables businesses to
integrate a wide variety of PBX systems, messages stores, PBX systems,
SIP phones and gateways and third-party hardware, software and
services into a single unified communications solution.

   With this increased flexibility, Objectworld UC Server is a
particularly attractive solution for small- to medium-sized
businesses, delivering UC at a very competitive price -- as low as 7
cents per day per user. Objectworld UC Server's capabilities include
legacy PBX integration and SIP-based VoIP, teleconferencing, call
queues, presence-based console, individual and organizational call
control, unified messaging with integrated fax, ODBC-enabled
phone-based applications and services and service creation environment
for customized Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions.

   "The benefit of being a software only solution is that it allows
Objectworld UC Server to interoperate with a wide variety of hardware,
software and services," said David Levy, Objectworld's president and
chief executive officer. "Objectworld UC Server allows businesses to
leverage the tools and solutions they have in place for considerable
costs savings, to integrate unified communications for very low cost
with what they have, and to manage their business communications
centrally from Microsoft Windows. No other unified communications
solution pairs this level of flexibility with Objectworld's trademark
ease of use in the industry today."

   The new, multiple PBX support further simplifies the transition
from one PBX system to another PBX or IP-PBX, or from one IMAP/MAPI
client/mail server combination to another, or the use of several PBXs
and mail systems at the same time. The solution also allows businesses
to keep their existing disparate phone and messaging systems and
manage them more centrally and homogenously with a single UC solution.

   "Businesses in the SMB market segment are at different stages on
their road to unified communications, spanning from having PSTN
connections and SIP trunking all the way through to having deployed
the most user-centric, real-time collaboration and productivity
tools," said Krithi Rao, industry analyst for Frost & Sullivan. "As a
consequence, interoperability poses a serious challenge to the uptake
of true unified communications, making flexible solutions ideal.
Assuming a solution is truly flexible enough to meet existing and new
challenges as a business grows over time and allows a business to keep
much of the hardware and software that they already have, even
relatively small businesses can save considerably by implementing UC."

   As software for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) platforms, IT
administrators manage the solution through Windows-based
administration tools, including Microsoft Active Directory(TM), and
end-users, through point and click Windows-based software. Customers
can choose Windows compatible hardware from Dell, HP, IBM or other
server hardware that suits their needs. The solution provides its own
embedded SIP telephony capabilities and/or adds unified communications
as an adjunct to 95% of the existing PBX market, including NEC, Avaya,
Cisco, Mitel, Siemens, Nortel and other PBXs, or several of them
simultaneously (including Objectworld's own embedded SIP PBX),
providing mix-and-match telephony or a simple, staged migration path
to a full VoIP solution.

   The software also delivers unified messaging with Microsoft
Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, and now Gmail and Novell GroupWise, all
four at the same time, or with any other IMAP/MAPI based client/server
e-mail solution. Through the Objectworld Connect(TM) Interoperability
Program, businesses can also deploy phones from Polycom, snom,
Grandstream, CyberData, Aastra, CounterPath, Cisco, Linksys, Mitel and
other vendors (or mix and match), as well as media gateways from
Dialogic, AudioCodes, Ingate, Quintum, VegaStream and Mediatrix, as
well as Internet Telephony Service Providers and other hardware,
software and services.

   Objectworld is a Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Partner and
will provide a free trial of Objectworld UC Server, VHD Edition on DVD
to attendees at the CompTIA Breakaway Member Conference in Orlando
Florida, August 4-7, booth #318. For more information on Objectworld's
solutions and pricing, please visit www.objectworld.com/pricing/.

   About Objectworld

   Objectworld(TM) Communications Corp. provides unified
communications software solutions that enable small- and medium-sized
businesses with Microsoft(R) Windows(R) platforms to drive workforce
productivity and improve organizational responsiveness. Its
award-winning product, Objectworld UC Server(R), integrates business
communications, business processes and corporate data to deliver a
true communications enabled business process solution. Objectworld
solutions provide unprecedented simplicity and value to businesses
that want to make a smooth transition from simple telephony to a
feature-rich unified communications solution, while leveraging their
investment in their PBX and Microsoft business systems. For more
information, please visit www.objectworld.com.

Vantage Communications for Objectworld
Fran Bosecker, 845-536-1416
fbosecker@pr-vantage.com
or
Objectworld Communications Corp.
Vincent Guihan, 613-599-9698 ext. 297
Director, Marketing, and Sales Operations
vguihan@objectworld.com

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