Good Technology acquires assets of JP Mobile
By agencies   |   Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 19:30 IST
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FREMONT: Good Technology has acquired the key technology assets and engineering talents of Dayakar Puskoor founded JP Mobile. The acquisition will give Good Technology access to advanced server technologies that connects with a variety of back-ends, including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Novell GroupWise and IMAP, developed by JP Mobile. With this acquisition, Good Technologies also gets access to key handheld data security technologies and key team members with significant experience building mobile solutions for enterprises. Dayakar Puskoor, CEO, JP Mobile said, “With over 6,500 corporate accounts, Good has proven that it meets the wireless handheld computing needs of the enterprise.” Further he referred that, “the addition of JP Mobile technologies, expertise and intellectual property will help Good continue to meet the needs of large enterprises, and will accelerate the product development required to meet market demands. We are very happy to be joining Good to bring the strengths of our two companies together.” “By integrating key components of JP Mobile’s server and security technologies with our GoodLink server, service, and client software, Good will be able to extend its mobile messaging and PIM system to all of the leading corporate messaging platforms, while simultaneously raising the bar for end-to-end integrated security on Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm OS platforms,” said Danny Shader, CEO, Good Technology. “We will be able to serve many more customers within the U.S. and abroad. This initiative will benefit not only our customers, but also our carrier and device partners, all of whom have been asking us to serve these markets,” Shader added. It may be recalled that siliconindia had featured JP Mobile in September 2004 as the cover story.

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