GemStone Systems Announces Availability of GemStone Facets™ 2.0 and Selection by SynXis® Corporation

Object Database Cache Improves Data Access, Scalability and Administration and Provides Synxis With Increased Performance Capabilities

Beaverton, Ore- July 22, 2002 - GemStone Systems, Inc., the leading provider of real-time performance software, today announced the availability of GemStone Facets 2.0, a shared transactional Java workspace providing transparent caching, clustering and object database capabilities. The new functionality enhances the performance of complex, distributed applications and provides enterprise organizations with faster ways to access their data while reducing CPU load and hardware requirement costs.

GemStone's Facets 2.0 provides SynXis, a leading provider of reservation management and distribution systems for the hospitality industry, with real-time critical business data availability helping their customers consolidate and control hotel inventory across all distribution channels. SynXis Corporation's Internet- based ASP solution, powered by GemStone technology, delivers full electronic distribution and reservations management capabilities to over 2,500 hotels worldwide.

"Based on our performance and scalability needs, we selected the JBoss application server and GemStone Facets 2.0 object database caching technology over other leading providers", said Jim Fucillo, vice president of engineering at SynXis Corporation. "With the strength of these combined solutions, we are able to easily process an average of over 400,000 reservation related messages per day. The GemStone technology allows us to respond to each of these inquiries within 1-2 seconds and has enabled SynXis to increase our customer base from 500 to over 2500 hotels in the last 12 months. These benefits will in turn help our customers access reservation details faster and with more accuracy while allowing SynXis to develop the solution within our existing infrastructure."

SynXis Implementation of Facets 2.0

SynXis Agent is the company's product solution that empowers hotel operators to consolidate and manage hotel inventory from a variety of sources, including global distribution systems, over 1200 popular Internet Travel sites, private-label central reservations systems, and full-service hotel Web sites. SynXis implementation of Facets 2.0 will enable the company to provide their customers with more revenue opportunities through faster communications. SynXis' hotel customers will also have the ability to independently manage each distribution channel from one easy-to-use control center. The GemStone Facets 2.0 solution enables SynXis users with the ability to manage multiple distributed applications through a logically consistent and recoverable real time-view of data across islands of information.

GemStone Facets 2.0 seamlessly integrates with Java 2 Enterprise Edition™ (J2EE) application servers via the Java™ Connector Architecture (JCA) to increase performance and improve system administration. When GemStone Facets 2.0 is integrated with a J2EE application server, a developer immediately has access to all of the distributed GemStone Facets object services including locking and notification.

"Based on feedback from our customers who are managing information from multiple sources and in real time, we focused on enhancing the performance, scalability and system administration in GemStone Facets 2.0", said Raj Kulkarni, senior vice president at GemStone Systems. "It is important for our customers to add complementary application performance technology to their existing infrastructure.".

GemStone Facets 2.0 Improves Performance, Scalability and Reliability

GemStone Facets 2.0 enhances the following areas to enable customers with integration capabilities for leading application servers while increasing the performance and scalability of their mission-critical applications:

Seamless integration with J2EE application servers:

• GemStone Facets 2.0 provides a sharable virtual store for active Java objects so developers can access information faster.
• Increases performance of objects across the application through its Cache Architecture.
• Provides the ability to share more information at faster speeds between servers across the application cluster.

GemStone Facets 2.0 improves reliability:

• GemStone Facets 2.0 enhanced fault tolerant system processes.
• Provides automatic failover to backup system.
• Increased support for third party clustering software.

Enhanced system administration and performance:

• From internal based benchmarks, the Facets 2.0 product has increased performance by 20%, now managing over 1400 transactions per second.
• New features take advantage of the system at low peak hours to increase performance of the operations.
• Removed hard limit on max sessions per virtual machine.
• New system audit and repair capability make the system easier to manage.
• Improved features for system monitoring and performance tuning.

About SynXis Corporation

SynXis Corporation's Internet-based ASP solution delivers full electronic distribution and reservations management capabilities to the worldwide hospitality industry. SynXis Agent®, at the solution's core, empowers hotel operators to consolidate and manage hotel inventory from all sources -seamless GDS connectivity, more than 1200 popular Internet travel sites, private-label central reservations systems, and full-service hotel Web sites. It also helps hotels build revenue by enabling them to independently manage each distribution channel from one easy-to-use control center. SynXis Agent does not require major up front investment and hotels can realize substantial cost savings with SynXis' simple transaction-based pricing model. SynXis is the technology source for more than 2,500 hotels, bed and breakfasts, resorts, and destinations, including, Harrah's, VIP International, Meristar, Colonial Williamsburg, and Jumeirah Hotels. SynXis' corporate headquarters are in McLean, VA, with offices in Denver, CO, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For more information on SynXis and its products, please call 703-448-2530, e-mail info@synxis.com, or visit our Web site at www.synxis.com.

About GemStone Systems, Inc.

GemStone Systems' technology enables customers to make split-second business decisions and immediately adapt to market change. Our real-time performance technology significantly increases the performance and manageability of real-time business applications, and increases user and system productivity. Building on 20 years of experience developing high-performance, highly scalable systems software, this revolutionary technology supports multiple languages, integrates with existing architectures and can be built into new applications. Our industry-leading customers like IntercontinentalExchange Inc., UBS Warburg, BellSouth Telecommunications and Orient Overseas Container Line depend on our technology and expertise to build scalable, mission-critical applications that have set the standard in their industries, and given them the competitive edge to be increasingly profitable.

Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, GemStone sells and supports its solutions through its US sales force and a worldwide network of distributors. For detailed product and company information, please visit www.gemstone.com

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