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Continuent Provides Complete Data Availability And Data Protection Solution For MySQL And PostgreSQL With Continuent Tungsten Community Edition

SAN JOSE, CA – November 10, 2009 – Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication, backup and database performance scalability, today announced availability of Continuent Tungsten Community Edition. Continuent Tungsten offers an easy to manage, dynamic database replication solution with automatic failover, cluster management, high availability and scalability.

Tungsten Community Edition harnesses the latest innovations from the open source database clustering community with no up-front acquisition costs, and provides a clear path to more advanced capabilities through an optional upgrade to the commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions.

All Tungsten components have previously been available as open source, but with Tungsten Community Edition they become far more easily accessible with complete builds, easy installation and configuration together with complete set of documentation. Tungsten Community Edition is available free of charge, while customers who want more advanced features and on-call technical support are encouraged to purchase the commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions.

Continuent’s commercial Tungsten Enterprise editions combine the power of open source and commercial technologies to deliver data availability solutions that are based on the Tungsten open source components, a unique collection of solutions for database scale-out. Continuent Tungsten Enterprise 1.2 is packed full with new features that make database clusters easier to administer and more stable. Tungsten Enterprise 1.2 includes Beta support for managing clusters based on PostgreSQL warm standby. PostgreSQL support includes provisioning of clusters, simple failover procedures, and backup/restore. In addition, Tungsten Enterprise 1.2 previews installation and management of clusters based on Oracle^® 10g running on Linux^™.

"Continuent Tungsten allows database administrators to implement simple, powerful and affordable data availability and database performance solutions. Our customers significantly lower their TCO on business critical database applications using Tungsten and open source databases," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "We are very pleased to offer Continuent Tungsten Community Edition as a free open source solution."

A free Tungsten Community Edition is available at http://www.continuent.com.

About Continuent

Continuent, the leading provider of data availability and database performance scalability solutions, offers database high availability and incremental performance scaling using commodity hardware and databases. We provide continuous uptime so you can deliver business critical database applications with high data availability and accessibility. We also offer support, training and consulting services to our customers worldwide.

Continuent’s Tungsten solutions provide a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. Tungsten core stack is 100% open source. Tungsten is operating system independent and supports both commercial and open source databases including Oracle, MySQL^®, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB^™.

For more information about Continuent and our products, visit www.continuent.com.