2004 Press Release

CopperEye Announces General Availability in the United States of the CopperEye Software Developers Kit

CopperEye's Patented Technology Enables the Creation of High-Performance Data Repositories Within High-Transaction Environments at Breakthrough Cost/Performance Levels

SAN FRANCISCO - March 31, 2004 - As part of its expansion into the United States database optimization software market, UK-based CopperEye today announced general availability in the US of the CopperEye Software Developers Kit. At the same time, CopperEye announced the appointment of a new, American CEO, Kate Mitchell, a veteran executive in the global database industry, and the opening of its US headquarters in San Francisco (see separate release).

CopperEye customers include Orange UK, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, with over 40 million customers in 21 countries across Europe and beyond. Telecommunications is the type of high-transaction environment in which CopperEye's technology creates greatest value. CopperEye's SDK was a key element in a made-to-order solution for Orange UK that delivered high performance, longevity and agility and, according to Orange UK's Solutions Delivery Manager, perfectly suited the customer's needs.

The CopperEye SDK is intended for use by developers of extremely large, high-performance, high-transaction volume applications. Target customers for the CopperEye SDK are Independent Software Vendors and Systems Integration firms specializing in application development, and large companies who do their own in-house application development.

Obliterating the Decades-Old Performance Bottleneck

Using the CopperEye SDK, application developers are able to build intelligent applications that deliver the "best of both worlds" in this market space: both the high performance of operational systems and the analytical power and flexibility of decision-support applications. This is possible since CopperEye's patented technology allows applications to handle very high transaction volumes while simultaneously indexing in near-real-time virtually every field of the transaction, delivering very fast query performance.

The CopperEye SDK is a robust, functionally rich set of software routines for creating high-performance, custom-built data stores suitable for extremely high-transaction volumes and large stores of historical data. The CopperEye SDK provides all essential functions to create and maintain data within a high-performance solution:

Insert, delete and query for key and property pairs
Transactional control to commit, rollback and set save points
Recover data from process or media failures
Manage indexes (e.g., create, drop)
Ability to join queries and then join the result sets together

The CopperEye SDK is priced at $50K per CPU and is available immediately.

About CopperEye

CopperEye is a provider of enterprise data management software that delivers an order-of-magnitude cost savings for companies needing to capture, store and quickly access business event data where the volume is measured in the tens- or hundreds-of-terabytes. This is increasingly important as corporate data volumes more than double every year and government regulations require companies to keep data longer. Using CopperEye, companies are able to improve global business and implement more powerful business applications at dramatically lower costs than competing solutions. CopperEye's underlying technology is a new, patented indexing approach that delivers a quantum leap in performance over traditional indexing alternatives.

CopperEye has offices in Bath, U.K.; Stamford, Conn. and San Francisco, Calif., U.S.A. For further information, please visit http://www.coppereye.com.

For further information contact:

Fiona Moon
CopperEye
Marketing Director
+44 01225 745492
Email: fiona.moon@CopperEye.com

Amy Fenstermaker
Magnet Communications
Tel: 415.345.6426
Email: afenstermaker@magnet.com