GoldenGate Adds Larry R. DeBoever and Ed Brennan to Board of Directors

Industry leaders Contribute Executive Strength and Broad Experience To Guide GoldenGate's Strategic Growth

Sausalito, Calif. - August 5, 2003 - GoldenGate, a leader in Global Data Synchronization, today announced the addition of two new members to its board of directors. Larry R. DeBoever and Ed Brennan bring significant technology and industry experience that will help guide the company through its accelerating growth.

Larry R. DeBoever is a world-renowned expert in transforming businesses through information technology and one of three people who created the IT discipline of Enterprise Architecture. A former META Group president, Larry is Executive Vice President of Hitachi Consulting, a unit of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) that provides global business and IT consulting. DeBoever is an authority in strategic business disciplines, including business/IT alignment, infrastructure planning, technology cost reduction, technology ROI, and information velocity.

Ed Brennan is a 25-year veteran of the retail and travel industries and currently serves as chairman and CEO of The Travel Retail Group, a travel industry corporation with $2B in annual revenue from multiple divisions, including Duty Free Shops (DFS), Starboard Inc. (cruise ship retail) Onboard Media (cruise ship and hotel media), CMI (cruise ship art auction).

"GoldenGate is delighted to add these top-tier executives to our board," said Mike Seashols, CEO of GoldenGate. "Larry is an acknowledged visionary that has been a guiding force for technical innovation and superior business management. Ed has driven the expansion and adoption of technology in the travel and retail sectors and as such he brings first-hand knowledge of what organizations need today in terms of real-time data access. Together they will help take GoldenGate to the next level."

"I am extremely excited to join GoldenGate's board of directors," said DeBoever. "GoldenGate has that rare ingredient, an industry-changing technology platform that addresses a number of significant business needs. GoldenGate's powerful real-time data movement and management capabilities can synchronize data throughout an organization, offering superior business continuance, visibility and information integration, making it the ultimate Œbusiness synchronization software platform'."

"The company has a strong offering that is applicable for any industry, particularly travel and retail where access to real-time data is critical in order to provide up-to-date offerings and the highest levels of service and customer satisfaction," said Brennan. "I believe GoldenGate has the right solution at exactly the right time in today's marketplace. I am eager to begin contributing towards GoldenGate's strategy to help take advantage of what appear to be limitless opportunities for expansion and growth."

About GoldenGate
GoldenGate is a leader in Global Data Synchronization. GoldenGate enables organizations to securely capture, transform, move, and migrate data in real-time inside and outside the enterprise to support key business and technology initiatives such as Business Continuity, Active Data Warehousing, Business Activity Monitoring, Application Integration, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Consolidation. GoldenGate's Global Data Synchronization software platform captures and delivers any "changed" data at sub-second speeds in massive volumes across any popular diverse data environment such as DB2, Oracle, HP NonStop SQL/MP and SQL/MX, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and Teradata. GoldenGate is a private company with eight years of revenue growth and profitability and has thousands of installations in over 20 countries. Customers include: Bank of America, Bank One, VISA, Merrill Lynch, Mayo Clinic, Legacy Health System, Comcast Communications, AOL/Time Warner and Dell Computer. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com or call (415) 289 8600.

Contact:
Robin Bulanti
Kulesa Public Relations/ for GoldenGate
robin@kulesapr.com
(650) 340-1986

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