GemStone Systems, the Leading Data Services Software Company Releases GemFire Enterprise 3.0

GemFire Enterprise 3.0 Includes New Features that Enhance Performance and Pluggability with Service-Oriented Architectures, Event-Driven Distribution Application Systems, and XML-Based Web Services.

Beaverton, Oregon - June 7, 2004 - GemStone Systems, Inc., a leading infrastructure software company, today announced the launch of GemFire Enterprise 3.0, a data services solution that makes data available on demand to applications regardless of underlying data sources or formats. GemFire is built on the industry's fastest and most reliable data distribution and caching system, proven in mission critical programs in financial services, federal government, transportation, and logistics.

GemFire Enterprise 3.0 is a high-performance, highly available, scalable, standards-based data services solution that provides data access across distributed sources, data distribution across multiple clients, and data management across multiple formats.

GemFire provides a pervasive, distributed data fabric for highly available data-on-demand. The data fabric provides data virtualization and transparency of sources to consumers of data. The fabric maintains data in multiple formats, whether its objects, database tables or flat structures and allows applications and users to interface with the fabric in a seamless, non-intrusive manner.

The GemFire data fabric connects to databases, application stores, analytical tools, messaging systems, and mainframes, enabling the deployment of high-performance service-oriented architectures at significantly lower costs. Inserted into existing system architectures will result in reduced data latency bottlenecks, scalability of existing systems to a larger number of users, and increased performance for new application server, portal and integration deployments.

"GemFire Enterprise 3.0 has been tested in mission-critical applications by leading financial institutions that have demanded a technology that significantly improves performance, lowers operational risk, and reduces the costs of maintaining and enhancing their technology infrastructure," said Shankar Iyer, executive vice president of Marketing and Strategy at GemStone Systems. "The GemFire 'data fabric', a middle-tier data layer, enables enterprises to build and construct service-oriented applications that span islands of information, to build virtual data warehouses, and provide a single view of the 'truth', whether it is customer information or enterprise risk."

About GemStone Systems, Inc.

GemStone Systems is a privately held infrastructure software company that provides data services solutions for enterprise business architects and data infrastructure managers that are building, enhancing or simplifying access, distribution, integration and management of information within and across the enterprise. Founded in 1982, and with over 200 installed customers, GemStone is recognized worldwide for its unique competency and patented technology in object management, virtual memory architectures, high-performance caching, and data distribution technologies.