Sleepycat pushes into telecom market

MontaVista Software and Sleepycat Software Deliver Fault-Tolerant, Open
Source Platform for Carrier Class Applications

Berkeley DB High Availability and MontaVista Linux Provide Reliable,
Scalable, Cost-Effective Solution for Networking Equipment Providers

EMERYVILLE and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 20, 2004   Sleepycat Software, makers
of Berkeley DB, and MontaVista Software Inc. today announced their
collaboration to deliver and support a fault-tolerant and highly scalable
platform for developers of carrier-class telecommunications and networking
applications. The platform combines MontaVista® Linux® Carrier Grade Edition
with Sleepycat's Berkeley DB High Availability database to form a joint
solution that reduces time-to-market and total cost-of-ownership.

Berkeley DB High Availability 4.2 has been officially certified with
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 3.1, after passing a comprehensive
battery of tests. Both products are open source, which helps make them
exceptionally stable and easy to debug and integrate with applications. The
newly certified joint solution provides developers with a carrier-grade
platform that reliably scales across multiple blades in a chassis or multiple
servers on a network, providing hot standby and automatic failure recovery
with no loss of data.

"The certification of Berkeley DB on MontaVista Linux provides our joint
customers with the highest level of confidence in developing and deploying
applications for rigorous carrier grade environments, where performance,
scalability, security and high availability are paramount," said Bob Monkman,
senior product marketing manager, MontaVista Software.

"This partnership combines the market leaders in embedded databases and
embedded Linux," said Rex Wang, VP of marketing at Sleepycat Software. "Our
value proposition is clear - faster time to market and easier integration
while meeting the highest performance and reliability requirements in the
telecommunications market."

Availability
Berkeley DB High Availability 4.2 and MontaVista Linux Carrier Edition 3.1
are immediately available, from Sleepycat Software and MontaVista Software,
respectively, with joint certification for equipment based on x86-based
processors.

About MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software and
development tools for intelligent connected devices and associated
infrastructure. MontaVista empowers software developers by providing Open
Source GNU/Linux-based software solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time
operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista offers a family of products
that address software developer needs encompassing applications ranging from
communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. MontaVista products
include MontaVista Linux Professional, Consumer Electronics and Carrier Grade
Editions. MontaVista DevRocket, a powerful integrated development
environment, delivers state-of-the-art development tools across all product
Editions. MontaVista Graphics offers a rich GUI development tools platform.

About Sleepycat Software
Sleepycat Software (www.sleepycat.com) makes Berkeley DB, the most widely
used application-specific data management software in the world with more
than 200 million deployments. Customers such as Amazon, AOL, British Telecom,
Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Google, Hitachi, HP, Motorola, Openwave
Systems, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and Veritas rely on Berkeley
DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their
mission-critical applications. Profitable since it was founded in 1996,
Sleepycat is a privately held company with offices in California and
Massachusetts.

Sleepycat Software and Berkeley DB are trademarks of Sleepycat Software, Inc.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a registered
trademark of MontaVista Software, Inc. All other product or service names are
the property of their respective owners.

Editorial Contacts:
MontaVista Software
Joe Samagond
Ph: (408) 328 9234
Email: jsamagond@mvista.com

Sleepycat Software
Craig Oda
Ph: +1 650.473.0600 ext. 102
Email: coda@sleepycat.com