NEON Systems Delivers Real-Time Business Intelligence Mainframe Integration on Oracle(R) Warehouse Builder; Shadow RTE Delivers Single Product Architecture For Reduced Cost of Ownership.

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON), The Mainframe Integration Experts(TM), today announced NEON's Shadow RTE(TM) has been certified for Oracle(R) Warehouse Builder 10g from Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL). As a result, Shadow RTE's solutions now can be integrated with Oracle Warehouse Builder to deliver single product architecture, with a central management and control interface.

NEON's Shadow RTE is the only mainframe integration technology to satisfy the full requirements of real-time mainframe data integration and maximize the return on BI investment for organizations with significant mainframe operational data stores. Shadow's unified architecture supports all industry standard forms of mainframe integration allowing organizations with significant investments in mainframe systems to dramatically reduce the overall cost of ownership associated with integrating mainframes with distributed computing environments.

"The combination of Shadow RTE and Oracle Warehouse Builder provide an ideal platform to support the Class I - Operational Data Stores (ODS) needed for real-time business intelligence of the world's most progressive companies," said Mark Cresswell, CEO of NEON Systems. "We are pleased to have our industry leading mainframe integration technology certified on Oracle Warehouse Builder as customers can now gain immediate benefits from the product combination without concern for compatibility," Cresswell added.

To address the requirements of mainframe data integration, NEON's Shadow RTE provides a foundation architecture - a robust, multi-thread native runtime -that underpins the industry standard ODBC and JDBC direct data access of Shadow z/Direct and the real-time business event management capabilities of Shadow z/Events. Shadow RTE's data integration components provide high-performance bi-directional access to the major mainframe databases, including DB2, IMS/DB, VSAM and ADABAS.

Oracle Warehouse Builder is not merely an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool. It is a tool allowing users to design their ETL processes, target warehouses, intermediate storage areas and the end user access layer. NEON's Shadow z/Events provides the mainframe Change Data Capture (CDC) features in support of real-time data synchronization and utilizes the same Shadow RTE mainframe architecture as Shadow z/Direct for reduced complexity and lower total cost of ownership. Any updates to operational data, which are mirrored in the data marts, are detected by Shadow z/Events in real-time, with minimal overhead, and published to Oracle Warehouse Builder.

About NEON Systems

NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON)--the Mainframe Integration Experts--is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions. Shadow RTE provides the industry's first Mainframe Services Bus (MSB) to support the entire range of requirements for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures (EDA)--essential foundation elements needed to support the Real-time Enterprise. For organizations with significant investments in mainframe systems, Shadow RTE dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with mainframe integration. A single unified platform for mainframe integration translates into faster development and deployment of new, high value applications, streamlined business processes and real-time access to enterprise data and logic regardless of where it resides within the enterprise. With extensive mainframe integration expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to solve the complexities of supporting new business initiatives and reporting requirements that intersect with critical mainframe systems. For more information on the Powering the Real-time Enterprise, see our Web site at http://www.neonsys.com or call 800-505-NEON.