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	December 02, 2003 Palantir Launched DIAMONDWARE BRINGS MILITARY-PROVEN COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY TO NEW MARKETS Mesa, Dec 2--DiamondWare, Ltd. announces Palantir(TM), its collaborative communications product for secure instant messaging, presence and availability, voice, and conferencing. It can scale up to 60 simultaneous voice users on commodity hardware, making it inexpensive to deploy in SOHO and SME markets. Palantir is a truly infrastructure-independent, and does not require a carrier, PBX, or other expensive gear. The company will release a shrink-wrapped enterprise solution in 2Q04, for sale through channel partners who can capitalize on selling revolutionary technologies to the SOHO and SME market segments. Palantir is already in use by groups within the US military and is also suited for civil agencies, hospitals, homeland defense, fleet operators, and other voice over two-way radio customers. Palantir has just been awarded "Product of the Year" by Communications Convergence magazine. "[We] were enormously impressed with their stuff," said the editors of Communications Convergence magazine, in awarding Palantir their prestigious "Product of the Year". "What truly cinched the "Product of the Year" win, however, was the fact that DiamondWare does useful things with stereo imaging and inline audio signal processing. Palantir conference participants can tweak little sliders to 'position' their interlocutors in audio space, making it vastly easier to remember who's who," they said in their review. "The technology goes beyond minutes, and beyond sessions. Users remain logged in whenever their computers are turned on, and just have 'sessionless' communications with one or more others, via text and voice as appropriate. Users can see others' presence and availability, and maximize efficiency and minimize wasted time," Erik Lorenzen, DiamondWare's VP of Engineering, said. "When we got started making media stacks for softphones, we had a vision for how computers and PDAs could revolutionize voice communications. We have followed through on our vision with Palantir," said Keith Weiner, DiamondWare's CEO. According to Weiner, "Palantir is a significant first step in that it obviates the need for phone equipment on the desk or in the server closet." DiamondWare has deployed Palantir technology internally. A white paper case study is published at http://www.dw.com/files/casestudy.pdf.