Press Releases

StreamBase Announces The Da Vinci Coder

Developer Peter M. Murray Builds Award-Winning StreamBase Application For Real-Time Filtering & Prioritizing Of Web-Based Content & Feeds

BOSTON, MA– October 14, 2006 — StreamBase Systems, Inc., provider of the industry's fastest and most powerful real-time and historical complex event processing (CEP) software, today announced that the $10K grand prize of its “Quest for the Da Vinci Coder” Grand Tournament has been awarded to a New England-based developer named Peter M. Murray. As part of the initiative, Murray has now also been named, “The Da Vinci Coder,” for his StreamBase “MemeFinder” application, which was deemed the most creative submission. Murray's MemeFinder application leverages StreamBase's world-class performance, enterprise-class storage, and standards-based programmability to identify and filter keywords from high-volume, dynamic text content, including RSS feeds, news articles, blogs and emails, and then prioritize and deliver the information based on sophisticated rules established by the end user.

“Congratulations to Peter for being named the Da Vinci Coder – his MemeFinder application is a notable example of how StreamBase's complex event processing capabilities can be applied to address a broad range of real-world challenges with managing and leveraging the growing volume and velocity of real-time data,” said Barry Morris, Chairman and CEO of StreamBase. “As the first company to spearhead an initiative like this within our industry, we've generated ground-breaking results fueled by a tremendous amount of interest about StreamBase's award-winning features and capabilities for building superior real-time stream processing applications.”

The Quest (www.thedavincicoder.com), co-sponsored by AMD (NYSE: AMD), was launched in June 2006 at the SIA show and provided the CEP industry’s first opportunity for programmers, developers, and business people to build the best real-time streaming data application using StreamBase. Developers not only had the opportunity to download and use StreamBase's best-in-class complex event processing software, but also vied for the opportunity to win numerous weekly prizes, the Grand Prize of $10,000, and the title of “The Da Vinci Coder.”

StreamBase also developed a three-minute video parody of "The Da Vinci Code" to reveal the origin of The Quest, which is still available for viewing at (www.thedavincicoder.com). The video 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. Over 33,000 developers and business users have downloaded the video or Developer Edition of the company's software.

About The Quest for The Da Vinci Coder

The Quest for The Da Vinci Coder was a peer-to-peer contest developed and run by StreamBase Systems, Inc. The Grand Tournament officially began on Monday, August 21st and ended on Monday, September 18th. Prizes were only available for U.S. residents.

Submissions for the StreamBase Da Vinci Coder Grand Prize applications were judged on the following criteria:

• Applicability of solution to real-world problems, business value and benefit
• Legibility and comprehensibility of the project's description
• The originality of the business case/problem presented
• Application design and architecture
• Complexity and completeness of the application and data sets
• Correctness of program execution
• Creative use of StreamBase to solve proble

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.

StreamBase Systems Media Contacts: