"We are very pleased to announce that GENBAND has selected Firepond to moveforward and build on the current implementation released earlier thisyear," said Firepond's President Bradlee Sheafe. "We appreciate GENBAND'sconfidence in selecting Firepond's application to include the products fromtheir recent acquisition of NextPoint Networks. The growth of ourrelationship with GENBAND is the result of both teams working closelytogether to identify what is required for the success of the Phase IIroll-out. In a head-to-head competition with an incumbent vendor, where thedifferentiators were experience and product feature and functionality, itis particularly gratifying the Firepond application was selected."

"GENBAND needed a solution that supported its multiple products andnumerous parts lists and pricing rules," said Brad Bush, GENBAND's ChiefInformation Officer. "After recently completing a major acquisition, wewere looking for a single platform that could be implemented quickly withthe flexibility and intuitiveness to allow us to efficiently create anddistribute quotes across all products. Partnering with Firepond helped usstreamline our quoting process and their application proved to be the bestchoice for GENBAND."

Firepond CPQ OnDemand eliminates the common problem of incorrect or missingproduct and pricing information on quotes. Firepond's powerful productconfiguration engine verifies proposed products are accurately configuredand priced. All users have access to the most current data, and dataupdates can be deployed in minutes. The end result is improved salesproductivity, improved margin and the elimination of write offs.

About GENBAND

GENBAND is a leading supplier of next generation IP gateway solutions,session border controllers and fixed mobile convergence security solutionsdeployed in over half of the world's 100 largest service providers. Thesehigh-performance, high-security gateway platforms are at the center offixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing andenhancing communications networks. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBANDhas research and development facilities in Brazil, China, Florida,Maryland, Massachusetts and Texas, and serves customers in more than 80countries. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.

About Firepond, Inc.

Firepond (OTCBB: FPND) is the leading provider of multi-tenant, on-demandConfigure-Price-Quote® software that automates and simplifies productpricing and configuration for companies and helps these enterprises improveorder accuracy while reducing their cost of sales. Firepond's salessolutions help companies to optimize their sales processes whether theirneed is to solve complex product or pricing configuration, create productcatalogs or provide an interactive selling system and dramatically improveresponse time. Firepond solutions provide a rapid ROI through improvedorder accuracy (100% of submitted orders have accurate specifications andpricing), improved proposal generation time and high user acceptance. Foradditional information about Firepond, visit www.firepond.com or call1-866-UCONFIG (826-6344).

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ContactJim ScheperVice President of Marketing and Salesjim.scheper@firepond.com303-378-7819