26 January 2006

GPXS acquires Galty Technologies


Expanding BlackBerry application depth and reach



GPXS Inc., Europe's fastest growing solution and support provider for Research In Motion®'s (RIM®) BlackBerry, and Galty Technologies, a Limerick, Ireland based developer of innovative BlackBerry applications, announced today that GPXS has agreed to acquire Galty Technologies for an undisclosed consideration of cash and GPXS stock. This acquisition unites two of Europe's most successful BlackBerry Alliance Members.

The acquisition of Galty Technologies will expand the GPXS Condor Mobile Applications suite, its BlackBerry applications portfolio for enterprises. And, the addition of the Galty Technologies product development team will help GPXS accelerate product development to meet the growing demand for its mobile productivity products. Galty Technologies benefits from GPXS’ extensive market reach and sales power. Galty Technologies will act as GPXS Ireland and will continue to stay focussed on producing high value BlackBerry productivity applications.

“The acquisition of Galty Technologies provides GPXS with a rich set of applications to quickly expand our BlackBerry applications portfolio for our customers and partners,” said Jerome Mol, CEO of GPXS. “This is the first step in our strategy to consolidate the market of BlackBerry software and services, and a key component in accelerating time-to-market for GPXS.”

“The integration of GPXS' and Galty Technologies' complementary businesses will provide significant benefit to our customers,” said Kieran O'Farrell, Managing Director of Galty Technologies. “GPXS’ extensive customer base and professional marketing and sales team will quickly expand the market for our products and give us access to new markets,” he concluded.


About GPXS
GPXS is a global software company delivering mobile enterprise solutions and BlackBerry expertise, to maximize BlackBerry investments. Condor Mobile Enterprise Solutions include both BlackBerry management tools and productivity applications that help manage, deploy and control BlackBerry environments and increase BlackBerry productivity. GPXS' enterprise services include managed services to support managing BlackBerry Enterprise Server™(s); hosted BlackBerry products for SME customers of mobile operators; and professional services including BlackBerry training, support, and implementation services. GPXS was established in 2002 and has offices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Ghent, Limerick, London, Madrid, Mountain View and New York. GPXS is a BlackBerry Alliance Member and strategic partner to multiple mobile operators and global enterprises. For more information, visit: www.gpxs.net.


About Galty Technologies
Galty Technologies is an innovative company building out-of-box BlackBerry software for mobile professionals in government and enterprise markets. Galty provides user productivity applications and management tools. Founded in 2002 by Kieran O'Farrell and James Harnedy. Galty Technologies’ headquarter is in Limerick, Ireland. For more information, visit: www.galty.com.


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