Funambol Mobile Open Source Community Testing Grows 2,000%, Downloads Gain 34% and Active Servers Increase 42%

REDWOOD CITY, CA, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Funambol, the leading provider of mobile open source cloud sync and push
email, today announced that its community experienced record growth in
the past few months, as developers and users increasingly adopt open
alternatives to proprietary sync and push email software. In the past
three months, Funambol's open source community testing increased 2,000%,
open source downloads grew 34% and active servers increased 42%.
Funambol's community continues to enhance the software's interoperability
with many systems, including Google apps, MS Exchange, Android and
Mozilla Thunderbird. Furthermore, Funambol's expansion into mobile social
networking has fueled significant developer interest and activity.

Among the projects created by Funambol's developer community,
AvatarGrabber tops the charts as the most popular mobile open source
social networking app. Developed by Alfredo Morresi as part of Funambol's
Code Sniper community program, it enables Facebook, MySpace and other
social network profile pictures to automatically sync with mobile phones.
As people change their profile picture on a social network, their photo
is updated in other people's mobile phone address books.

"Our community is growing rapidly because in this economy, people are
increasingly turning to open source standards-based software that
interoperates with all major mobile phones and desktops," said Stefano
Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager. "Nobody wants to be locked into an
expensive proprietary sync service. Funambol is the Switzerland of mobile
sync and push email, it lets users easily switch phones, desktop apps and
webmail services while retaining their personal data."

Funambol's basis on open source provides the industry's broadest mobile
device compatibility, for billions of mobile phones. Its open source
software is backed by the world's largest mobile developer community,
which helps test Funambol software on thousands of smartphones and feature
phones. Funambol open source can be freely used for internal projects, as
well as rapidly translated into different languages.

About Funambol

Funambol is the leading provider of mobile open source cloud sync and push
email solutions. Funambol open source software has been downloaded over
three million times by 50,000 developers in more than 200 countries. The
commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at mobile operators,
portals, device manufacturers, service providers and ISVs including
customers such as AOL, 1&1, Earthlink and CA, Inc. Funambol is
headquartered in Redwood City, California with an R&D center in Italy. For
more information, please visit www.funambol.com. You can follow Funambol
on Twitter at http://twitter.com/funambol.

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