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Synchronica, a mobile synchronization and device management vendor, has announced a contract with Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) to license key components of the Synchronica Mobile Gateway for integration with products from its Communications and Applications software divisions.

 

Using the Synchronica technology, Sun will enable its customers to build customized synchronization solutions that can, for example, include over-the-air synchronization of ERP or CRM data to the Smartphones carried by sales or support personnel.

 

The Communications division of Sun plans to use the SyncML synchronization engine of Synchronica's Mobile Gateway (News - Alert) with the Sun Java Communications Suite enabling users to synchronize calendar, contacts, and tasks over-the-air, with a wide variety of mobile devices compatible via the SyncML industry standard.

 

Synchronica will also provide SyncML synchronization clients for Palm OS and Windows Mobile Smartphones, as well as a client provisioning module using the industry standard OMA CP (Client Provisioning), providing over-the-air configuration of mobile devices.

 

The Applications division of Sun has road-mapped to use Synchronica's SyncML synchronization engine and Java ME (Mobile Edition) SyncML client to enhance the Sun Java Application Platform Suite with an end-to-end synchronization infrastructure, enabling third party developers to build arbitrary data synchronization solutions.

 

This contract is a breakthrough by Synchronica officials, who say it "marks the successful conclusion of the negotiations, announced previously, with a major hardware manufacturer."

 

Sun will pay an initial license fee of $1.8 million for the first major version upon Sun's acceptance of the software. Sun can buy additional licenses on a per-user basis at a price of up to $2.40 per user per annum. The contract offers Sun the option to consolidate the licenses into a one-off fee of up to $4.6 million per major version.

 

In addition, Synchronica has signed a support contract with Sun covered by a base fee of up to $150,000 annually, plus a fee of up to $4,500 per support incident.

 

Earlier this month Synchronica announced a free trial of its Mobile Gateway 3.0, providing mobile synchronization between Microsoft (News - Alert) Exchange and the native e-mail client of the iPhone.

 

Owners of the Apple (News - Alert) smartphone can now try Mobile Gateway free of charge to send and receive corporate email using their iPhones -- without having to install any software on the device or behind the corporate firewall. Until now, owners of Apple's ground-breaking smartphone have been largely locked out of corporate mail systems, because the built-in email client of the iPhone (News - Alert) only supports Microsoft Exchange via direct IMAP/SMTP connections, a feature which is often blocked by corporate firewalls due to security concerns.

 

 

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