Continuent Achieves Substantial Growth in 2005; Growth Fueled by Launch of Industry's First Open Source Database Virtualization Solution.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Continuent, the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability, today announced that the company achieved record growth in 2005. Significant milestones include:

--The launch of the industry's first database independent virtualization technology;

--Establishing the company as a significant open source player with commercial open source solutions and a product line designed to work with all major databases in any enterprise environment;

--The launch of Continuent.org, a new open source portal and community dedicated to database high availability and scalability; and

--The close of a Series B venture capital funding.

In 2005, Continuent tripled its customer and partner engagements and experienced more than 100 percent revenue growth.

"As data availability increasingly becomes the lifeblood of success for enterprises, the need for solutions that provide business continuity and scalability has become essential," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "Continuent's growth in 2005 is a result of its ability to meet the demands of enterprises by providing highly sophisticated solutions that can operate in any database environment."

Continuent's new, open-source based solutions, launched in November 2005, works with all major databases and reflects the company's evolution from a provider of proprietary high availability services for a limited market to a provider of open source solutions for any enterprise environment. Continuent delivers these services through the industry's first database virtualization technology, which abstracts databases and presents them as one virtualized database to an application.

Continuent completed its Series B round of venture capital funding in 2005. Led by investment firms Trident Capital, Nordic Venture Partners and Ledstiernan, the round brought Continuent's total equity investment to $15.75 million.

Continuent also launched last year Continuent.org, an open source portal and community dedicated to high availability and scalability services for databases and other closely related technologies. Continuent.org aims to provide a deep framework for solving the issues of high availability and scalability often associated with databases that can be used in a heterogeneous database environment or tailored to a specific database. Continuent.org is currently backed by a team of twelve full-time engineers whose mission is to create industrial quality open source technology.

2005 also saw Continuent membership in the MySQL(R) Network Certified Partner program as a MySQL Gold Partner and in ObjectWeb, a consortium of companies and research organizations producing next-generation open source middleware. These affiliations further solidified Continuent's commitment to furthering the proliferation of open source in the enterprise.

About Continuent

Continuent ensures business continuity for the enterprise. With flexible solutions that deliver data availability and scalability, Continuent guarantees customers' peace of mind and lets them focus on running a successful business. Continuent's industry breakthrough middleware works with all major databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL(R), Sybase(R), Microsoft(R) SQL Server, Oracle and IBM(R) DB2(R). Through the use of database virtualization technology, Continuent solutions even support heterogeneous database environments. Continuent products are compatible with a wide variety of hardware, operating system and application environments. Continuent is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with research labs in France and Finland. For more information, please visit www.continuent.com.

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