Solid Answers Market Demand for Alternatives to Oracle.

With Real-time Performance, Always-On Data Availability, and Dramatically Lower TCO, solidDB Remains Unmatched in the Communications Industry

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Solid[TM] Information Technology, the only provider of fast, always-on and affordable databases used in more than 3,000,000 mission-critical deployments worldwide, today formally announced its Oracle Replacement Program. The Oracle Replacement Program offers steeply discounted runtime license pricing, together with discounted migration & professional services, training, and technical support to network equipment providers (NEPs), OEMs and carriers interested in reducing the costs of their database infrastructure while delivering fast and uninterrupted access to data.

The communications industry is experiencing an explosion in the amount of data associated with the delivery of new, media-rich services such as location-based, presence-based, and file sharing services. As a result, the need for extremely fast data access and continual data availability are greater than ever. It is also critical for solutions vendors and carriers to obtain these advanced data management capabilities as affordably as possible.

solidDB is a carrier-grade data management solution designed for communications and networking services where fast, uninterrupted data access is required. It manages real-time application data, as well as the essential control and coordination data inherent in networks. solidDB's industry-leading high availability enables six "9's" (99.9999%) data availability, with the ability to re-establish data access in milliseconds in case of system failure. That compares quite favorably to Oracle RAC, which might take as much as 30 seconds or longer to recover from a system failure, making solidDB's recovery hundreds of times faster than Oracle's.

When it comes to total cost of ownership, solidDB is an all-in-one compact product that combines fully transactional, in-memory and disk-based database engines with carrier-grade high availability. This greatly simplifies development, deployment and maintenance of mission-critical installations. To achieve similar capabilities with an Oracle-based solution, customers have to buy, learn, integrate and operate Oracle RDBMS, RAC, TimesTen database, TimesTen Cache Connect and TimesTen Replication. In addition, solidDB's license price is significantly lower than Oracle's; and while both companies charge customers based on the number of processors, Oracle charges an additional amount for cores in the processor. As the use of multi-core processors increases, soaring vendor-licensing costs will come under additional pressure.

"solidDB has always offered a significantly compelling price/performance ratio compared to Oracle and other vendor's database products," said Paola Lubet, vice president of marketing and business development, Solid Information Technology. "The launch of Solid's 'Oracle Replacement Program' underscores our confidence in the quality of our product and in the superior TCO solidDB delivers to both OEMs and their end customers."

Solid's Oracle Replacement Program is an exclusive, limited-time offer, available through January 31, 2007. Participants in the program receive:

-- A special run-time license fee that is 50% less than Oracle's
   comparable pricing
-- Solid Migration Services that include three FREE months of Solid's
   DevConnect(TM) subscription service (a $10,000 value). These
   services include:
    -- Renewable subscription for five named developers
    -- Rights to use all available Solid products for multiple
       development projects
    -- Five days of on-site professional services to aide in
       application migration from Oracle to solidDB
    -- Five days of instructor-led training
    -- Gold-level technical support

For more information about Solid's Oracle Replacement Program, visit: www.solidDB.com/replaceoracle22.

About Solid Information Technology

Solid Information Technology is the only provider of fast, always-on and affordable database solutions. Solid's customers achieve up to 50% shorter time-to-results and lower operational costs for their applications, while delivering high quality of service to their customers.

There are more than 3,000,000 deployments of Solid's database technology worldwide in telecommunications networks, enterprise applications, and embedded software and systems. Market leaders such as Alcatel, Cisco, EMC2, HP, Nokia and Siemens rely on Solid for their mission-critical applications.

Founded in 1992, Solid has worldwide headquarters in Cupertino, California, and regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.soliddb.com.