Silicon Valley Luminary Regis McKenna Joins GoldenGate Software Board of Directors

McKenna's Years of Experience with Technology Leaders will Help Shape The Future Of Transactional Data Management

San Francisco, Calif. - April 4, 2005 - GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that Regis McKenna, renowned technology marketing consultant, venture capitalist, and author has joined the company's board of directors. McKenna pioneered theories and practices that shape today's prevalent marketing methodologies. He has helped launch some of the world.s most important technology innovations over the last three decades including the first microprocessor, the first personal computer and the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product. McKenna's work with Silicon Valley leaders has translated into technologies that effectively changed the way we live and work.

"Regis McKenna needs no introduction. As a well-respected authority on business strategy and technology marketing, he is a very valuable addition to the GoldenGate team," said Ali Kutay, president and CEO of GoldenGate. "We look forward to working with Regis to develop future market strategy and build upon GoldenGate's leadership position in transactional data management."

"GoldenGate has pioneered a unique technology that allows organizations to maximize the performance, accessibility, and availability of their mission-critical transactional data," said Regis McKenna. "Enterprise data continues its accelerating growth, and advances in storage and database technologies enable new ways of managing data transactions. The CIOs are no longer concerned about where and how to store data. Today's challenge is making data accessible across all business units in real time, while ensuring accuracy and integrity," added McKenna. "I am excited to join GoldenGate's board and help shape the future of transactional data management."

The GoldenGate board of directors is made up of managing executives, investors and experts, with an average of 25 years' industry experience. In addition to McKenna, they include Ali Kutay, GoldenGate president and CEO, Eric Fish, GoldenGate founder and CTO, Todd Davidson, GoldenGate founder, Peter Y. Chung, general partner of Summit Partners, Larry R. DeBoever, EVP of Hitachi Consulting, and Ed Brennan, CEO of the Travel Retail Group.

About Regis McKenna:
Regis McKenna, considered the marketing guru of Silicon Valley, is a well-known technology marketing consultant, advisor to entrepreneurs, venture capitalist and author. Over the past 30 years, he advised and consulted many of the leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs helping them develop their marketing infrastructures. McKenna is included in the San Jose Mercury News' Millennium 100 as one of the 100 people who made Silicon Valley what it is today. McKenna has written five books and lectured extensively on the social and market effects of technological change advancing innovations in marketing theories and practices. McKenna advised a number of entrepreneurial start-ups and their founders during their formation years including: America Online, Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and many others.

About GoldenGate Software
GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. Providing technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data in real time across major databases and environments, GoldenGate helps organizations mitigate risk, reduce costs and increase revenues. Fortune 500 companies use GoldenGate solutions to manage critical initiatives such as high performance computing, data integration, business continuity and compliance. Customers include Bank of America, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Dell. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, IDX Systems Corporation, Insession Technologies and HP. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com.

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

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