Federal Defense Agency Selects GemStone Technology for its Experience and Unique Capabilities to Solve Performance Issues in Mission Critical Applications 

Bethesda , Maryland , October 7, 2004 - GemStone Systems, Inc., a leading data services infrastructure software company, today announced that a Federal defense agency has selected GemStone technology to improve the performance of its mission critical applications.

"As most defense agencies deal with the challenging problems associated with mission critical and net-centric architectures, they are looking for technology that makes information available to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere across multiple platforms and operating environments," said Richard Lamb, president at GemStone Systems. "GemStone technology provides the unique capabilities needed to increase application performance, improve scalability and solve data latency issues."

GemStone Technology

GemStone technology is based on 20 years of development experience with object oriented databases, virtual machines, application servers and shared memory for optimizing data management in distributed systems. GemStone technology, proven in mission-critical environments, provides the robust, scalable, secure and flexible environment to develop, deploy and manage high-performing, multi-tier applications.

With GemStone technology, defense agencies receive the following benefits:

• Provides instant high-performance access to data at different touch-points from multiple sources
• Seamlessly plugs into existing architectures and enhances the performance and efficiency of middle-ware technologies
• Improves scalability of applications across a distributed environment
• Enhances application performance without the need for additional hardware
• Reduces network traffic and load on backend systems and increases the application's resilience to data source availability

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.

The Federal Government team has 45 years of combined experience and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.