Macromedia and jabber, inc. Partner to provide federal agencies with secure collaboration solutions

Macromedia and jabber, inc. Partner to provide federal agencies with secure collaboration solutions

Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced a partnership with Jabber, Inc., a leading provider of real-time, standards-based presence and messaging solutions. The companies plan to integrate Macromedia Breeze Meeting and the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP), while partnering in the pursuit of federal business. The joint offerings will allow the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agencies to rapidly deploy a web conferencing, instant messaging (IM), chat, presence, and awareness solution that meets the rigorous standards requirements of the federal government. The first deliverable of the partnership is expected to be available in early 2006 and will enable users to easily launch Breeze Meetings directly from Jabber XCP.

“The integration of Breeze Meeting with Jabber XCP creates a powerful web conferencing, messaging, and presence solution for federal government customers,” said Rick Emery, vice president of business development, Jabber, Inc. “Pairing the rich, real-time collaboration capabilities of Macromedia Breeze with Jabber XCP’s open, interoperable presence and messaging infrastructure delivers a standards-based, best-in-class solution for mission-critical communications.”

Breeze Meeting is a powerful, easy-to-use, highly interactive web conferencing and collaboration solution that delivers whiteboard, chat, VoIP, and video capabilities in virtually any web browser. Breeze supports a host of government and commercial security features and enterprise scalability, and can be implemented behind an agency’s firewall to leverage existing network security infrastructure. Breeze harnesses the ubiquity of Macromedia Flash® Player, which is available on most federal agency gold disks and deployed on over 600 million desktops and mobile devices worldwide. In addition, Breeze is U.S. DoD JITC-certified and easily integrated into government installations.

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