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Continuent Ships New Tungsten 1.2 With Free Community Edition Available For Download

SAN JOSE, CA – November 5, 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 1.2.

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 edition.

Continuent Tungsten harnesses 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 offers an easy to manage, dynamic database replication solution with automatic failover, cluster management, high availability and scalability for MySQL^®, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB^™ and Oracle^®. Continuent Tungsten runs on all Linux^™and Solaris^® platforms, and in the Amazon EC2^™ cloud.

With Continuent’s Tungsten solutions you can improve your existing database with:

• High availability: automatic failure detection and recovery, automatic master failover with a seamless, transparent switchover.
• Data protection: zero data-loss during failovers, planned or unplanned, integrated backup/restore, and disaster recovery by data replication to remote site and into cloud.
• Cloud operation: take advantage of the public cloud for scalability, maintain copies of the database and place it into the cloud to guarantee a consistent copy of the data at all times, and reduce the costs of provisioning.

"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 and mission critical database applications using Tungsten and open source databases," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "We are offering a Community Edition as a free download, with an optional upgrade to the commercial Tungsten editions."

Continuent Tungsten is available today for existing and new subscription customers running MySQL and PostgreSQL. Continuent Tungsten will be available for Oracle by end of Q4’09. The pricing for Tungsten 1.2 starts at $500 per month. 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.