ANTs Appoints Rao Yendluri as Vice President of Engineering.

Former IBM and Solid Information Technology Database Expert to Lead ANTs R&D

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- ANTs software inc. (OTCBB: ANTS), a leader in compatible, high-performance SQL database management systems, today announced that Rao Yendluri has joined the company as vice president of engineering. Mr. Yendluri will apply his more than 25 years of leadership experience in all aspects of relational database development to lead new and ongoing development programs for ANTs software inc.

Prior to joining ANTs Software, Mr. Yendluri founded and was president of iNuCom, a software development firm specializing in data warehousing components, managing its successful asset acquisition by Ascential Software, which was subsequently acquired by IBM, where Mr. Yendluri held the position of director of engineering. Mr. Yendluri was previously vice president of engineering for Solid Information Technology, where he managed a distributed R&D organization and was responsible for the Solid EmbeddedEngine database, Hot Standby option, and Solid Synchronet products. Prior to that, Mr. Yendluri was director of development at Prism Solutions, Inc., where he oversaw development of data warehouse extraction, transformation and loading tools and at Centura Software Corporation (now GUPTA Technologies, LLC), he was director of connectivity and replication development for the company's database product. Mr. Yendluri also managed the SQL connectivity group at Tandem Computers, and was instrumental in forming the SQL Access Group, which developed the X/Open CLI API, an industry standard for database access.

"I am very excited to be joining ANTs," said Mr. Yendluri. "The need for application compatibility and database consolidation is increasing rapidly as IT departments try to minimize the costs of database servers and maintenance, and being part of a company with this potential for growth and partnerships is extremely exciting."

"Rao is an experienced, results-oriented leader adept at managing R&D teams to effectively deliver high-quality products," said Joseph Kozak, president and CEO of ANTs Software. "We are very pleased to have Rao join our executive team, and look forward to having this seasoned executive take the reins of our technology development organization."

About the ANTs Data Server

The ANTs Data Server is a full-featured, standards-compliant relational database management system based on a breakthrough, high-performance SQL query execution engine that incorporates innovative, lock-free operations. It can typically be deployed on fewer, low-cost servers with the potential to reduce hardware, software and system administration costs by 60 to 90 percent. Through its compatibility with Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and Informix databases, and its embedded deployment mode that supports Oracle-TimesTen applications, the ANTs Data Server allows applications to be moved without the major rewrites and cost usually associated with application migration.

About ANTs software inc.

ANTs software inc. (OTCBB: ANTS), based in California's Silicon Valley, develops and sells the ANTs Data Server, an affordable, high-performance relational database that is compatible with popular databases. The company's mission is to help customers reduce hardware, software and development costs by providing exceptional database price/performance. For more information on ANTs software, visit www.ants.com.

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