Palm, Inc. Syncs with Siebel eBusiness 2000

May 1, 2000 - Palm, Inc. today announced its support for Siebel eBusiness 2000, the most complete and comprehensive family of eBusiness applications software available today from Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL), the world's leading provider of eBusiness application software. Siebel eBusiness 2000 offers support for the popular Palm OS® software.

Siebel eBusiness 2000 is the only solution that allows organizations to manage, synchronize and coordinate sales, marketing, and customer service across all communication channels and points of customer contact - including the Web, the call center, field sales and service, and reseller channels. Siebel eBusiness 2000 allows organizations to increase their productivity, enhance customer satisfaction, and maximize revenue and profit by capitalizing on every moment of value in each customer interaction - anytime, anyplace, in any currency, and any language.

Siebel eBusiness 2000 enables customers to extend their Siebel eBusiness information to Palm™ handheld computers. As a Siebel Strategic Platform Partner, Palm worked closely with Siebel Systems to integrate Siebel eBusiness 2000 with the Palm Address Book, Calendar and To-Do applications, allowing users to synchronize data between Siebel eBusiness 2000 and Palm applications.

"Customers have been asking us to deliver Siebel eBusiness Applications to the actual location of the sale," said Bruce Cleveland, vice president of Alliances at Siebel Systems. "The wide-spread adoption of the Palm OS platform and the simplicity it offers mobile users significantly extends the reach of Siebel eBusiness Applications to mobile sales and service professionals.."

About Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc. is the leading provider of handheld computing devices (IDC, Dec 1999), including the Palm III(MT), Palm V™ and Palm VII™ series of handheld computers. The Palm OS platform is the foundation for the market-leading handheld computers from the company as well as products from its strategic partners such as IBM, QUALCOMM, Franklin Covey, Handspring, TRG and Symbol Technologies. Designed to support the increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed nature of information management, the company's handheld solutions allow people to carry their most critical information in their pockets. For more information, please visit www.palm.com.

About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL) is the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness application software enabling multi-channel sales, marketing and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, call centers, field, reseller channels, retail and dealer networks. Siebel Systems' sales and service facilities are located in more than 28 countries. For more information, please visit Siebel's Web site at www.siebel.com.