Attn: Business & Technology Editors

PureMessage is #1 Anti-Spam Solution for Higher Education: 
ActiveState Spam Protection Gets an A+ with Top-Tier Schools Including
Stanford, Duke, and Cornell

VANCOUVER, BC - August 20, 2003 - As students head back to school this
fall, many will experience a dramatic decrease in the volume of spam and
viruses that land in their email in-box.  Behind the scenes, the IT
departments of leading institutions world-wide are taking control of
their email with PureMessage, a server-based email filtering solution by
ActiveState.  

ActiveState provides anti-spam software to more than 80 of the world's
largest and most prestigious educational institutions, including: Duke
University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley,
Cornell University, New York University, University of North Carolina,
University of Washington, Texas A&M, Temple University, University of
Leeds, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  PureMessage
is also used by hundreds of leading corporations worldwide.

Scalability and Reliability
The education sector is challenged by the need to stop the growing spam
problem with limited budgets and resources.  However, many IT
departments at educational institutions operate on a scale similar to a
Fortune 500 company, serving up to tens of thousands of users, all of
whom require access to email, including students, faculty, staff, and
alumni.  Heterogeneous IT infrastructures across multiple departments
and schools, and the use of a variety of UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh
email clients, often create a diverse and complex environment in which
to deploy new products.

PureMessage by ActiveState provides a cost-effective, comprehensive
email filtering solution for the education sector that scales to
accommodate hundreds of thousands of users, and can be easily integrated
with existing systems.  Using a unique combination of heuristics, spam
directories, spam signatures, and learning algorithms, PureMessage
safely identifies and quarantines more than 98% of spam.  As a result,
schools ensure computer resources are being used efficiently and
end-users regain productivity losses caused by spam.  Customers are also
attracted to PureMessage's per-CPU licensing, which further reduces
costs by removing the need to track and report individual users.

Ranked as College of the Year among Research Institutions, Indiana
University advocates the PureMessage solution.  Says Rob Henderson,
associate facilities director for the Computer Science department, "The
utility versus cost of PureMessage is exceptional.  I would not hesitate
to recommend PureMessage to my educational colleagues." 

Protecting Academic Freedom and Privacy
In recent months, academic IT departments have become overwhelmed with
spam complaints from end users, elevating internal concerns about the
institution's reputation as a thought-leader, and introducing the
possibility of lawsuits related to unsolicited email.  Yet many schools
have a policy protecting academic freedom and privacy, which must be
balanced with the need to protect their IT infrastructures and end
users.  Using the "tag and pass" option, PureMessage automates the spam
identification process, while providing the ability for end users to
determine how they want to handle such messages.

"Whether you're an administrator managing an international business
school, or a student communicating with a professor online, email has
become just as important function in academia as it has in the workplace
and the home.  That function is being threatened by spammers' ability to
evolve new spam techniques, and obtain valid student and faculty email
addresses over the Internet," said Chris Kraft, director of PureMessage
product management, ActiveState. "PureMessage provides the education
sector with a cost-effective solution to define, monitor, and manage
their email."

PureMessage by ActiveState education customers include:

Stanford University - Founded in 1885, Stanford is one of the United
States' most prestigious schools, boasting a current enrollment of
approximately 14,000.  The Stanford team evaluated several products
before selecting PureMessage, choosing the software for its
effectiveness (low false positives and false negatives), performance (no
effect on mail throughput), ease of maintenance, and cost.  PureMessage
actively protects 22,000 Stanford user accounts, and the system
processes approximately half a million messages daily. 

Indiana University (IU) - IU is a public institution with eight campuses
throughout the State of Indiana, and an all-campus enrollment of 93,775
(based on fall semester 2000-2001).  The CS Department takes advantage
of PureMessage's ability to add the spam probability ranking to the
subject line of each suspicious email.  In this fashion, the end user is
given full control over their spam emails and how to handle them. 

University of Washington - The University of Washington has more than
34,000 staff and faculty, 24,000 clinicians, 29,000 undergraduates, and
10,000 others enrolled in professional and graduate programs.  After
evaluating several potential solutions, the University chose PureMessage
for its cost, support, extensibility, ease of integration to its
existing environment, and flexibility. 

About PureMessage
PureMessage by ActiveState is a server-based email filtering solution
providing spam and virus protection, and enabling the creation and
enforcement of other email hygiene policies for inbound and outbound
messages.  PureMessage safely identifies and quarantines spam using a
combination of heuristics, spam directories, and spam signatures,
delivering the most effective spam filtering with low IT administration
and end-user effort.  PureMessage supports AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux,
and Solaris.  More details are available at:
www.ActiveState.com/PureMessage.

About ActiveState Corp.
ActiveState enables enterprises and IT professionals to increase
productivity and organizational efficiency.  PureMessage by ActiveState
empowers organizations to take control of their email communications by
protecting against spam and viruses, and enforcing email policy.
Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam
software for enterprises and professional tools for programmers is
available at: www.ActiveState.com.

Media & Analyst Inquiries:
Lori Pike, ActiveState
LoriP@[...].com
604.808.6655

Katey Stewart, Horn Group
kstewart@[...].com
415.905.4019

ActiveState and PureMessage are trademarks of ActiveState Corp.  All
other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.


Copyright ActiveState Corporation 2003.

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