GoldenGate Software Joins MySQL Partner Program

GoldenGate to Tap Demand for Real-time Transactional Data Management in Open-Source Deployments

San Francisco, Calif. - September 27, 2004 - GoldenGate Software Inc. (www.goldengate.com), a leading provider of Transactional Data Management solutions, today announced it has signed a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with MySQL AB, and become a Certified ISV Partner for MySQL ® , the world's most popular open source database.

GoldenGate's Transactional Data Management software platform captures, routes, enhances and applies transactional data in real time, with guaranteed integrity across diverse database sources, including MySQL. Through the VAR agreement, GoldenGate can better assist MySQL users to synchronize data in real-time from diverse database sources into their MySQL databases. This will support customers looking to achieve real-time data integration across enterprise mission-critical applications, including web applications and real-time reporting to improve decision support.

“For some time now, mutual GoldenGate and MySQL customers have been using our solutions together, taking advantage of the high performance, lower cost MySQL database. Sabre Holdings is a great example of a mutual customer that is realizing tremendous benefits by using GoldenGate and MySQL on Linux in its new airfare shopping system, which averages 300,000 updates an hour to each of its 45 production MySQL servers,” said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate. “Our job at GoldenGate is to enable MySQL customers to deploy faster and realize benefits sooner. By moving the data in real-time from any database into MySQL, we help MySQL customers roll out projects more quickly,” added Rathbun. “We are delighted to see such strong demand among large enterprise customers for the MySQL solution and we are looking forward to a long and successful partnership.”

"Open source databases have matured greatly over the last few years and their expanding functionality has made them a lot more attractive to the large enterprise customer," said Charlie Garry, senior program director at META Group, a leading provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting. "Open architecture and the ability to work with many of the most popular databases, makes the synergies of these two technologies a natural to take to market. The combination can help companies looking for the best approach to migrate and integrate their critical transaction data from multiple databases into MySQL."

"MySQL customers are greatly interested in easily accessing diverse data sources all across the enterprise,” said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB. “Traditionally, the integration of large, disparate databases on different platforms has been a complex and time-consuming process. Fortunately, GoldenGate is a tremendous asset for users looking to run these types of real-time operations.”

MySQL AB develops, markets and supports a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. The company's flagship product is MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, with more than five million active installations.  Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press and NASA, are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software. MySQL AB is a second-generation open source company, with dual licensing that supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business. For more information about MySQL, please go to www.mysql.com.

About GoldenGate

GoldenGate is a leader in Transactional Data Management. Hundreds of businesses worldwide use the GoldenGate platform to manage critical initiatives such as business availability, data integration, business visibility and compliance. By providing the key technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data wherever it is needed, GoldenGate helps organizations mitigate risk, respond faster to customer needs, reduce costs and implement real-time operations. Designed to work with today's heterogeneous systems, the GoldenGate platform captures and delivers changes in transactional data at sub-second speeds in high volumes across any environment, including Oracle, DB2, HP NonStop SQL/MP and SQL/MX, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and Teradata. A private company, GoldenGate has completed thousands of installations in 35 countries, working with numerous Fortune 500 companies. Customers include Bank of America, Bank One, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Dell. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key partnerships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, IDX Systems Corporation, Insession Technologies and HP.

For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com

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

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