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Tumbleweed Press Releases
Tumbleweed Partners with Child Health Corporation
of America to Deliver Comprehensive Secure Messaging Solutions
to Children's
Hospitals
Offers Tumbleweed’s Email Firewall, Secure Email and Secure File Delivery Solutions to Children’s Hospitals Throughout the U.S. Redwood City, CA – February 3, 2004 – Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions for enterprises, financial services, healthcare and government, announced today a strategic technology agreement with Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) to provide secure messaging solutions to 41 CHCA children's hospitals that include many of the nation's largest and best-known not-for-profit children's hospital and health care systems in North America. Under the agreement, Tumbleweed will offer its industry-leading email firewall, anti-spam, email encryption and secure file delivery software products to CHCA Owner Hospitals to secure their Internet communications. The Company will also provide professional services and training. These products are currently used by six CHCA Owner Hospitals, including Children’s Hospital in Boston, The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. "Not only will Tumbleweed’s suite of secure messaging and delivery solutions help our Owner Hospitals access secure, HIPAA compliant patient communications, but it will give them the tools to stop the spam and viruses that have the potential to significantly compromise our children’s hospitals’ networks and operations," said Don Black, President of Child Health Corporation of America. About Tumbleweed's MMS Email Firewall About Tumbleweed's Secure Redirect About Tumbleweed Secure Transport Enterprise Edition “Tumbleweed is proud to be able to offer CHCA Owner Hospitals a comprehensive set of secure messaging solutions to ensure the confidentiality and security of patient information,” said Dave Jevans, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Tumbleweed Communications. "We are excited about working with CHCA to provide Tumbleweed’s 10 years of experience in mission-critical Internet communications to CHCA Owner Hospitals. The fact that Tumbleweed has 24 of the 67 Blue Cross Blue Shield confirms our position as the leading Internet communications vendor in healthcare,” Jevans added. About CHCA About Tumbleweed Communications Corp. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current plans and expectations, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the characteristics and performance of Tumbleweed's products, as well as Tumbleweed’s position as a vendor in the healthcare market. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed June 4, 2003, Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2003, and Form S-3/A filed December 19, 2003. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, including for example its guidance regarding its future performance, which represents the Company's expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company's expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein. ###### |
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