Ken Denman
Chief Executive Officer
So, on the messaging side, we’re seeing good solid pipeline and I think, in general the market has declared sort of the death meal of messaging in one form or another for a long time and even we at Openwave, I think at various times have sort of pushed it into sort of the cash cow space. But what we are seeing as the market morphs and changes is that, messaging continues to be an incredible and important enabler to help people work and live, because we’ve had social networks come into play and just other, the lifestyle of users is migrating, particularly with younger users, where they communicate differently. So, this has caused our customers to look for other solutions to allow them to continue to grow, vis-a-vis other players who are coming into the social network arena, and it’s presented different challenges. What we’re finding is, we actually have some pretty good tools to help with the challenges and we’re spending a lot of time right now trying to look around two corners to think about the next problem set that the market will be dealing with at the end of FY ‘10 and FY ‘11. I’m actually pretty excited about some of the things that we see. So, to sort of put a bow on this, what I would say is, in terms of regions, we’re seeing nice uptake in the Americas on the messaging side. We’re seeing opportunities in some emerging markets, as they’re sort of leapfrogging some of the older messaging technologies and going to newer messaging technologies. By newer, I mean more dependent on mobile, as opposed to fix line and so, the emerging markets are a nice place for us and we have a couple opportunities in Asia that we like a lot including, specifically in the Japan market. Again, people are reinvesting in messaging and that was maybe a surprise to the market, how steep the reinvestment cycle has been. It’s primarily driven though by the two major phenomena that we talked about, smartphone traffic and then all things non-phone, because all of this data transversing the network ultimately ends up being images, ends up being mixed media of some kind and ultimately it’s about storing forward. So, that’s why we’re seeing what appears to be, I think renewed growth in messaging. It’s really a continuation of the core theme around what’s happening on the mediation platform.