GoldenGate Supports Sabre Holdings High-Speed Searches in Air Shopping Products

Leader In Data Synchronization Drives Low Fare Lookup on Travelocity, Sabre Airline Reservation Systems and for Travel Agents Globally

San Francisco, Calif. - November 3, 2003 - GoldenGate (www.goldengate.com), a leader in data synchronization software, and travel commerce leader Sabre Holdings, today announced that the GoldenGate Data Synchronization solution has been deployed to deliver Sabre Holdings Air Shopping products. With GoldenGate deployed within an innovative new architecture combining a cluster of HP NonStop systems and a commodity server farm of low-cost Unix and Linux systems running MySQL databases, Sabre Holdings is able to instantly process low fare searching and itinerary pricing for traditional travel agencies as well as online travel sites, including Travelocity. Sabre Holdings has long set the gold standard for data movement in the airline industry, and the new Air Travel Shopping Engine (ATSE) platform leverages strategic vendors that use open systems to achieve high performance and real-time data availability while keeping implementation costs as low as possible.

The ATSE platform implementation, originally launched on the HP NonStop systems in Summer 2002, moved forward in record time. Because Sabre Holdings Air Shopping products are highly CPU intensive, the company decided to port them over to the new architecture based on the Linux servers and MySQL databases. With GoldenGate's cross-platform abilities, Sabre Holdings had no problem with this migration to the lower-cost server farm. The ATSE platform rollout commenced in March 2003 with an initial implementation of 8 HP/UX servers. Sabre Holdings has further migrated to Linux by adding new systems and upgrading PA-RISC server to IU-Itanium for a total of 45 servers. Sabre Holdings expects to add more servers as required to accommodate business growth. Within this architecture, GoldenGate is used to capture database changes made on the NonStop servers and replicate them at sub-second speeds to the MySQL database on the Unix/Linux commodity server farm. Data is replicated continuously around the clock at a standard batch transmission load of 300,000 updates per hour.

"Sabre Holdings is migrating from proprietary platforms to open systems and open source technology to reduce costs while increasing capabilities. This shift gives us a critical advantage, as we serve an expanding base of professional and consumer users," said Craig Murphy, chief technology officer at Sabre Holdings. "GoldenGate has been a valuable intellectual partner in our ATSE platform implementation, vital to our evolving architecture as they continuously migrate and move data at sub-second speeds. Together we are honing Sabre Holdings' competitive edge as we advance our travel commerce technology."

The need for real-time data has grown in the airline industry in recent years as carriers and agents deploy Internet ticketing, scheduling and customer service. Third-party commercial service providers such as Sabre Holdings require up-to-the-second information on flight prices and availability. In order to achieve real-time functionality, Sabre Holdings needed a technology solution that could move data across diverse platforms and provide high-speed performance in an open system environment.

"The type of platform diversity deployed in Sabre Holdings' new Air Shopping products is characteristic of today's high performance enterprise IT projects," said Mike Seashols, chief executive officer at GoldenGate. "To reduce costs and stay competitive, organizations are adopting open systems, demanding more independence and choice when selecting databases and hardware. With its ability to move large volumes of data across heterogeneous systems at extremely high speeds, GoldenGate is quickly becoming a key technology provider within open architectures."

About Sabre Holdings
Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company, is a world leader in travel commerce, retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel agents, corporations and travel suppliers through its companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network, GetThere, and Sabre Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company has approximately 6,500 employees in 45 countries. Full year 2002 revenues totaled $2.06 billion. Sabre Holdings is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TSG. More information is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.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, HP and DST Innovis. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.goldengate.com or call (415) 777-0200

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

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