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StreamBase Aligns With Federal R&D Firm To Fuel Scientific Computing Initiative Collaboration

Collaboration Ignites NASA-funded Project For Complex Event Processing (CEP) Software Driving Scientific & Government Sense & Respond Applications

BOSTON, MA – November 6, 2006 — StreamBase Systems, Inc., provider of the industry's fastest and most powerful real-time and historical complex event processing software, today announced a strategic partnership with Milcord LLC, a firm that provides research and development services to government, universities, and high technology companies. As a result of this partnership, Milcord and StreamBase collaborated together to complete an initial phase of an R&D project that had been sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) through a Phase I contract under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The project demonstrated the successful application of the StreamBase Complex Event Processing (CEP) software for processing high-volume, disparate oceanographic, atmospheric, and meteorological data. In addition, the Phase I project showed how to simplify and accelerate the real-time analysis of high-volume sensor-generated NASA data from a variety of remote and in-situ sensing device to better identify scientific trends and perform predictive analysis. This unique initiative also included resources from the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine.

"NASA's Earth Science Data Processing mission required a sophisticated and extensible software platform to transform the large volume of multi-dimensional and multi-parameter scientific data," said Dr. Alper Caglayan, President of Milcord. "Based on our prior involvement with StreamBase, we found that the software could readily process and analyze the high volume of both real-time and historical environmental data — and transform that data into streaming real-time intelligence for NASA's end users and managers. With StreamBase, NASA can develop flexible, robust streaming applications with fast turnaround time and lower computing costs."

StreamBase's Stream Processing Engine, using the next-generation programming language, StreamSQL™, uniquely solves real-time data management problems with an infrastructure platform for capturing, integrating, and reacting to streaming data, at speeds up to hundreds of thousands of messages per second or more. Recently, StreamBase announced the industry's fastest processing speed with 500,000 real-time messages per second on a single CPU, and scalability to millions of messages per second.

Ultimately, StreamBase's extraordinary performance rates provide the headroom today's competitive enterprises require to continually keep pace with growing data volumes, while also using only a fraction of the systems resources typically required by other alternatives. With StreamBase, government and military agencies can now join enterprises in financial services, e-Business, and telecommunications to build high-performance, low-latency applications that process and analyze data as fast as it arrives. These applications can be prototyped within as little as hours or days. Currently, global organizations leverage StreamBase to build a variety of applications focused on risk management, automated trading, compliance, intelligence and surveillance, and network monitoring.

"StreamBase continues to revolutionize how enterprises process and query both real-time and historical data to fuel time-critical business decisions," said Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Founder and CTO of StreamBase. "The adoption of StreamSQL as a powerful, yet familiar language for complex event processing is making it easier for developers to build these high-throughput mission-critical applications. We are pleased to extend our capabilities into the scientific computing area and to the larger domain of Earth Science Data processing via this collaboration with Milcord and the University of Maine on this NASA-funded program."

About Milcord

Milcord LLC was founded in 2003 to provide R&D services to government, universities, and technology companies. The company specializes in Knowledge Management, Geospatial, Information Security, and Information Management technologies and applications. Milcord has R&D contracts with the US Army, US Air Force, NASA, and the Department of Homeland Security. Milcord maintains offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and at Target Technology Incubator at University of Maine in Orono, Maine. For more information, go to www.milcord.com

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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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