GoldenGate Expands Presence in Healthcare, Adds New Deployments Supporting IDX Carecast™

Healthcare customers choose GoldenGate to synchronize data during system migrations, supporting 24X7 up time for physician order entry and other vital data needs.

Sausalito, Calif. - August 11, 2003 - GoldenGate, a leader in data synchronization, today announced the expansion of its presence in the vertical healthcare market with the addition of new customers that use information systems from the Carecast division of IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: IDXC). Continuum Health Partners in New York and Saint Francis Care in Hartford, Connecticut have chosen to deploy GoldenGate 7 as an integral element within the IDX Carecast™ enterprise clinical solution. During the first half of 2003, GoldenGate has added six new healthcare customers through its IDX partnership, strengthening its base in this vertical market.

"In cooperation with IDX, we are driving an expanded presence in healthcare institutions, helping to meet their critical demands for real-time operations and aid with HIPAA regulatory compliance," said Mike Seashols, CEO of GoldenGate. "GoldenGate's speed and volume data movement capabilities are unrivaled and combined with the depth of our experience in diverse computing environments, we are positioned to provide healthcare customers a cost-effective solution to meet the IS requirements for delivering quality care."

IDX Carecast™ runs on the highly scalable HP NonStop platform, which provides 99.9 percent uptime. GoldenGate software fully replicates the Carecast database, ensuring continued access to accurate, up-to-the second data during upgrades. GoldenGate also supports multiple database environments, which enable IDX customers to capture data from the core HP NonStop system and create active data warehouses to run real-time reports for statistical analysis, fiscal reporting, and other data-intensive tasks.

"Our relationship with GoldenGate further reinforces our commitment to Advancing Fail-Safe Care™ and to reliable, cost-effective technology solutions," said Michael Raymer, vice president of marketing, IDX Carecast. "Immediate, up-to-the-minute access to accurate data is vital to both patient care and smooth business processes. Through use of GoldenGate's technology, our customers benefit from ongoing access to Carecast's patient data during upgrades and other system migrations."

Continuum Health Partners, with an annual operating budget of $2.2 billion, delivers inpatient and outpatient care through nearly 3,100 certified beds located in seven major hospital facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and through ambulatory, primary care and specialty care practices throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester County. Continuum will utilize Carecast and GoldenGate in its three largest acute care hospitals: Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and Long Island College Hospital. "At Continuum Health, we operate diverse computing environments that support hospitals and outpatient clinics spread across five boroughs of New York and Westchester County," said Gail Donovan, EVP and COO of Continuum. "Ensuring continuous data synchronization across all systems is absolutely critical to delivering quality care. We look forward to GoldenGate's support of continuous uptime in our complex healthcare environment."

Saint Francis Care will deploy Carecast across the three Saint Francis Care network facilities in Hartford: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (600+ beds), the Mount Sinai Campus and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut, as well as the affiliate Bristol Health Care System in Bristol, Connecticut.

About Carecast
Carecast is IDX's next generation of electronic clinical information solutions, delivering unsurpassed response time and reliability to support fast-paced clinical environments. The system automates workflow throughout the healthcare enterprise and enables rapid access to patient records across the care continuum, from admission to discharge, including pharmacy and ambulatory care. Carecast is a fully integrated clinical, financial and administrative system, combining core clinical processes for orders, results, pharmacy and clinical documentation with administrative and financial processes for scheduling, registration, admitting, charging and billing. The result is a comprehensive lifetime patient record that enhances the quality of care and promotes operational efficiencies. Developed by and for providers -- in collaboration with some of the nation's leading hospitals, clinicians and healthcare executives -- Carecast builds on 25 years of innovation with the IDX LastWord enterprise clinical system.

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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