For Immediate Release

MessageOne – A New Company Focused on Enterprise-Wide Messaging Management – Announces $18 Million in Funding

Includes $10 Million in Recent Third-Round Funding from RRE Ventures, Impact Venture Partners and StarVest Partners L.P.

Austin, Texas Company Founded by Adam Dell

Austin, TX - March 11, 2001 - MessageOne, Inc., the provider of the first easily deployed, enterprise-wide messaging management solution, today announced that it has received a total of $18 million in venture capital from New York venture capital firms RRE Ventures, Impact Venture Partners and StarVest Partners, L.P. MessageOne was founded in 2000 by Adam Dell, managing general partner of Impact Venture Partners. Mr. Dell incubated the company, and Impact Venture Partners provided $8 million in two initial rounds of funding. In January, MessageOne received $10 million in a third round of venture funding, which was led by RRE Ventures and included StarVest Partners L.P. and Impact Venture Partners.

"RRE Ventures has made this strategic investment in MessageOne because we strongly believe that Fortune 500 companies are seeking technology solutions that reduce management complexity, cost and risk, and help companies better protect their core business processes and intellectual property – which are heavily reliant on email," said Stuart Ellman, general partner of RRE Ventures and member of the MessageOne board of directors.

IT industry veteran Anne Perlman is MessageOne’s president and chief executive officer. She assumed leadership of MessageOne after serving as the first chief executive office of Moai Technologies. Ms. Perlman formerly spent fifteen years with Tandem Computers (acquired by Compaq) where she held the positions of general manager and vice president of marketing.

"MessageOne was born from listening intently to Fortune 500 CIOs and IT managers share their needs and pains around managing the increasingly complex messaging ecosystem," said Adam Dell, who is chairman of the MessageOne board of directors. "By focusing solely on messaging management, MessageOne has delivered an elegantly designed solution that companies can deploy immediately to improve the health, cost effectiveness and performance of their messaging environment."

About MessageOne
MessageOne is the only company providing global 2000 companies with an easily deployed, enterprise-wide management system for solving the complex challenges associated with today’s mission-critical messaging environment. The company’s MessageView solution provides a Web browser-based view of a company’s email servers across the enterprise, allowing multiple levels of IT management to quickly view historical reports and conduct real-time monitoring of the messaging environment, which includes anti-virus and wireless applications and servers. MessageOne is privately held and based in Austin, Texas. More information about the company is available at www.messageone.com.

About Impact Venture Partners
Adam Dell’s Impact Venture Partners is an early stage technology venture capital fund that invests in enterprise software solutions that enable global 2000 companies. The Fund’s mission is to achieve superior returns by identifying innovative companies addressing the needs of large emerging markets, investing across the life cycles of these ventures and working closely with entrepreneurs to build successful enterprises. Impact’s portfolio companies include Buzzsaw.com, National Transportation Exchange (NTE), iMark.com, CenterBeam, Opentable.com, GoAmerica, Keen.com, PartMiner.com and Metapa. More information is available at www.impactvp.com.

About RRE Ventures
RRE Ventures invests in entrepreneurial information technology companies with special emphasis on software, communications, Internet and related enterprises that can become industry leaders in rapidly growing markets. With $500 million under management, RRE combines significant capital resources with managerial, financial and technical experience and corporate contacts to create value for its portfolio companies. Limited partners include leading international institutions, multinational corporations, institutional investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders. RRE’s portfolio includes Montavista, Capital Thinking, Reefedge, Teja, Watchguard and Evoke Software, among others. More information is available at www.rre.com.

About StarVest Partners, L.P.
Founded in 1999, StarVest Partners, L.P. is a $150 million New York-based venture capital fund dedicated to working with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class e-business services and software companies. The firm is comprised of a team of ten, including the four founders, Deborah A. Farrington, John D. Miller, Laura B. Sachar and Jeanne M. Sullivan, who bring a mix of 95 years of complementary investment experience. Portofolio companies include NetLedger, Inc., Broadbeam Corporation, and Tibersoft Corporation. More information is available at www.starvestpartners.com.

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