Corporate Profile for Ardent Software, dated July 31, 1998.

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Published Date:   July 31, 1998

Company Name:     Ardent Software, Inc.

Address:          50 Washington Street
                  Westboro, MA 01581

Main Telephone
 Number:          508/366-3888

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL) www.ardentsoftware.com

Chief Executive

 Officer:         Peter Gyenes

Chief Financial

 Officer:         Chuck Kane

Investor Relations

 Contact:         Jan Diogenes

Public Relations
 Contact:         John Sawyer

Trading Symbol/
 Exchange:        NASDAQ:ARDT

Industry:         software

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Company description: Ardent Software is a data management company with a range of software products, including database systems and data warehouse development tools. Its products include the O2 System(R), a high-performance object database management system; DataStage(R), a data warehouse development tool; and UniVerse(R) and UniData(R), extended relational database management systems for packaged business applications. With worldwide sales and service operations, as well as 1,000 resellers in more than 50 countries, Ardent is one of the top 100 software companies in the world. More than 50,000 customers and over 2,000,000 users in virtually every aspect of business and government use Ardent's products to overcome their most complex data management problems. Additional information is available on Ardent's web site at www.ardentsoftware.com.

  CONTACT: Ardent Software, Inc.