Belgacom, the Leading Belgium Telco Selects Ensim Unify to Offer Hosted Exchange 2003

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Credits Ensim Unify's Proven Scalability to Migrate Over 100,000 Existing Customers

Ensim Corporation, the global leader in hosting automation software, today announced that Belgacom, the leading Belgium telecommunications provider, selected Ensim Unify as the hosting automation platform for its new Communication Tools offering. With Ensim Unify, Belgacom is able to deliver, manage and control Exchange 2003 as a hosted service from its secure, redundant tier one data center facilities.

Said Stijn Vander Plaetse, head of product management for data products, "Ensim Unify offers a highly scalable, open architecture solution that makes it possible for us to migrate over 100,000 email accounts to hosted Exchange 2003. But more importantly, we can now offer the feature-rich Communication Tools email services bundled with our broadband offering to new customers. The upsell potential is a critical component of our strategy for the future and Ensim Unify simplifies the process of offering tiered hosting plans to various customer segments."

Belgacom's Communication Tools offering was created to meet the needs of companies that were looking for high-performance messaging and collaboration and reduce their communication costs. With Belgacom's Communication Tools based on Microsoft Exchange 2003 and managed by Ensim Unify, subscribers do not need to invest in expensive equipment, software or technical support. For only euro 5 per month per e-mail box, professional customers will have all the advantages of a professional email solution, including viruses scanning, spam filtering, storage and backups. Ensim Unify also enables Belgacom to quickly roll out advanced mobility features, thereby allowing customers to access their email from any PDA, Smartphones or portable computer.

Said Micheline Germanos, director of Microsoft Hosting EMEA, "Belgacom's plans to migrate their legacy email delivery platform to the MS Exchange 2003 platform that is managed by Ensim Unify demonstrates the strong market demand for Exchange 2003, as well as the scalability of the Ensim Unify platform. We are working in close cooperation with Ensim to ensure the success of Belgacom."

Ensim Unify is a comprehensive multi-service delivery platform for Web and application hosting. Architected to be highly scalable and extensible, Ensim Unify allows Belgacom to centrally create, control and deliver applications as a service. With pre-integrated Service Managers for Hosted Exchange 2003, Windows Web Hosting, MS SQL, and Windows SharePoint Services, Ensim Unify boasts a number of extensible modules that allow for the easy integration of new services.

Sandip Gupta, president and chief executive officer at Ensim Corporation, added, "Ensim Unify was built with scalability and extensibility in mind. Today Belgacom can experience the benefits of Ensim Unify for Hosted Exchange 2003. Looking to the future, Belgacom can leverage Ensim Unify's open architecture to launch additional hosted services to further differentiate their offerings and provide ongoing value to their customers."

About Belgacom
Belgacom is the leading telecommunications company in Belgium and a market leader in a number of areas, including retail and wholesale fixed-line telephony services, mobile communications services and broadband data and Internet services. For the year ending 31 December 2003, the Group had total revenue of EUR 5,454 million and operating income before depreciation and amortization (excluding non-recurring items) of EUR 2,250 million.

About Ensim Corporation
Ensim Corporation is the global leader in developing and providing software solutions for the Web and application hosting industry. More than 80 tier one hosting service providers (HSPs), including over one half of the top U.S. HSPs, use Ensim's products to automate the provisioning, metering and management of their hosting offerings. Ensim's professional-grade software currently hosts more than 750,000 Web sites and five million mailboxes, with an annual growth rate exceeding 100 percent. The company's comprehensive product line includes the industry's first multi-service delivery platform, control panels, virtual private servers, and server management software. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.ensim.com, or call toll free 877-693-6746 within the United States, or 408-745-3300 if you are calling from outside the United States.

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