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StreamBase Announces Da Vinci Coder Contest For The Most Talented Programmers on The Earth

Complex Event Processing Leader Offers Industry-First Initiative to Challenge Intellect, Win $17,000 in Prizes, & Test StreamBase Developer Edition

SIA NEW YORK, NY– June 20, 2006 — StreamBase Systems, Inc., provider of the industry's fastest and most powerful real-time and complex event processing software, today announced at the annual SIA Technology Management Conference in New York City, the official launch of an unprecedented strategic initiative, "The Quest for the Da Vinci Coder." Co-sponsored by AMD (NYSE: AMD), The Quest (www.thedavincicoder.com) provides programmers, developers, and business people with the opportunity to test-drive an enterprise-class complex event processing platform through a fun, interactive, and intellectually stimulating competition.

To kick-off The Quest for The Da Vinci Coder, StreamBase world-premiered the contest's movie trailer at the SIA Technology Management Conference at Booth # 2005. The trailer, a parody of "The Da Vinci Code" movie, provides a humorous portrayal of the challenges faced by skilled software programmers, who typically write custom-code to try and meet rapidly changing business demands for leveraging real-time information. At the conclusion of the parody trailer, viewers are directed to a new web site for The Quest, which features weekly puzzle-solving contests and a streaming data video game. Contestants will also be prompted to download the StreamBase Developer Edition, which helps answer puzzles and provides access to sample applications for market data processing and trading analytics. Additionally, sample quote and trading sample data are available to help jump-start the application development process.

"As a software development platform company, we understand the daily challenges and pains of today's programmers and coders," said Barry Morris, Chairman and CEO of StreamBase. "To reach this audience, we are offering a distinctive approach for accessing and evaluating our stream processing software. The experience with The Quest for the Da Vinci Coder is designed to be interactive, fun, and challenging, while also showing developers how easy it is to build real-time applications in a fraction of the time and price of traditional custom coding."

Through mystery puzzles and competitions that demand intellect, creativity, and skill, players will have the opportunity to compete amongst their peers to win weekly prizes valued at $1,000 USD. These weekly prize packages include a Bose® home theatre system, an iPod® ultimate collection, an Xbox 360™ premium bundle, or the opportunity to donate winnings to a favorite charity. The grand prize, which includes being named "The Da Vinci Coder," is valued at more than $10,000 USD and offers a whirlwind tour of London and Paris, an amazing zero-gravity experience, a "take the money & run" option, or the opportunity to generously donate the full prize dollar amount to a charity of the winner's choice.

About The Quest for The Da Vinci Coder

The Quest for The Da Vinci Coder is a peer-to-peer contest developed and run by StreamBase Systems, Inc. Phase one of The Quest officially begins on Monday, July 3rd and ends August 21st, 2006. Phase two, with additional details to be announced on July 24th, begins August 14th and ends on September 18th. Phase two, with additional details to be announced on July 24th, begins August 14th and ends on September 18th. Prizes are only available for U.S. residents. The site, www.thedavincicoder.com, is maintained and updated by StreamBase and is no way affiliated with Dan Brown or Sony Pictures. We in no way claim the artwork displayed to be our own. Copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, articles, and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law. For inquiries regarding The Quest, please email: davinci@streambase.com.

About StreamBase

StreamBase's award-winning Stream Processing Platform, fueled by the standards-based next generation query language, StreamSQL™ and an Eclipse-based development environment, offers the fastest Complex Event Processing software for processing of real-time and historical data. With StreamBase and StreamSQL, enterprises can query, process, and analyze real-time and stored data at rates of up to hundreds of thousands messages/second. StreamBase's combination of real-time performance, persistence, and programmability empowers enterprises in industries like financial services, telecom and networking, e-Business, government and military to solve new classes of business challenges in a more timely, scalable, and cost effective manner than custom-coding. StreamBase is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and London. A downloadable version of StreamBase's software is available at www.streambase.com.

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