MS SQL Server 2005 Survey Reveals Wide Market Adoption With Dominance for Running Business Intelligence, Reporting and Data Warehousing Applications.

SEATTLE -- GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced the results of a recent survey, "SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies Reach across the Enterprise," produced by Unisphere Research in cooperation with GoldenGate Software and the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) in September 2006. The key findings, announced at this weekeIUs 2006 PASS Community Summit in Seattle, point to the growing adoption of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, as well as increasing reliance on Microsoft SQL Server for supporting mission-critical applications.

The survey was designed to assess enterprise adoption levels for SQL Server, examine the types of applications organizations run today, and understand the plans for new applications in the coming year. Overall, 95% of respondents either run SQL Server 2005 today or plan to adopt the database platform within two years, citing performance, enhanced reporting, and extended business intelligence capabilities as the top drivers. Of the surveyed group, 41% say that they currently support more than 60 instances of the database and almost all respondents say they will continue to deploy SQL Server as a part of their future plans.

More than 7 out of 10 respondents (71%) said the number of applications running within their SQL Server environments will increase over the coming year. According to respondents, the predominant types of applications running within their SQL Server environments are reporting functions, business intelligence and data warehousing, with more than a third (34%) identifying business intelligence or analytics as their top project priority this year. In terms of maintaining continuous operations, at least half of all survey respondents need to take their environment offline for upgrades, migrations and other maintenance tasks and most of this planned downtime is for up to four hours per episode.

"With new confidence in the database platformeIUs ability to run mission-critical applications for business intelligence and enterprise analytics, the survey findings reflect the rapid adoption of SQL Server in existing heterogeneous environments eI with 85% of respondents reporting wide use of commercial and open source databases running alongside SQL Server," said Sami Akbay, vice president of marketing at GoldenGate Software. "Enterprise applications and data warehouses no longer run in isolation, and therefore organizations must be able to easily move their transactional data across systems and at the same time minimize the risk of any downtime or outage. We see an increasing need to integrate data transactions in real time from other environments to SQL Server in order to give the business access to the most up to date, accurate information."

GoldenGate provides high availability and real-time data integration solutions with support for the widest range of databases including Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB, HP NonStop Enscribe and MySQL. For more information, you can visit GoldenGate, who is an event sponsor, in booth #407 at the 2006 PASS Community Summit taking place on November 13-15 in Seattle, WA. To request an executive summary of the survey, "SQL Server and Microsoft Technologies Reach across the Enterprise" (September 2006), please contact [e-mail].

About GoldenGate Software

GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management (TDM) solutions for maximizing the performance, accessibility, and availability of enterprise data. GoldenGate's technology offerings enable businesses to capture, route, transform, deliver, and verify transactional data in real time across heterogeneous IT environments. With more than 300 customers worldwide, GoldenGate is used to drive solutions for critical initiatives in high availability, disaster tolerance, and real-time data integration. Customers include Visa, Bank of America, Sabre Holdings, Comcast, Federated Investors, Mayo Foundation, UBS, and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISVs and systems integrators including ACI Worldwide, GE Healthcare, Teradata -- a division of NCR, Amdocs, MySQL AB, and others. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com.