CombineNet Selects Emic Networks to Support MySQL Database Application

9 August 2005

Emic to Provide Leading Software Company with High-Availability Services

LINUXWORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO - Emic Networks, the leading provider of application clustering solutions for open source, announced today at LinuxWorld San Francisco (Moscone Center, booth #243) that CombineNet, an optimization software company, has chosen Emic m/cluster to provide high availability services for its mission critical open source MySQL applications.

CombineNet's Decision Guidance Tools allow business users to gain a holistic view of their operations and make real-world decisions that have an immediate impact on the bottom line. Applied to some of the most complex problems facing businesses today, CombineNet helps business leaders make informed, objective decisions based on any combination of data. A key to CombineNet's success is the availability of its Web-based optimization tools, so mission-critical decisions can be made in real time. CombineNet looks to Emic to ensure that the MySQL database elements within its Web-based tools is available and operational for its customers, which include Fortune 500 companies in the consumer packaged goods, automotive, retail and manufacturing industries, among others.

"Our customers rely on our Web-based Decision Guidance Tools to solve some of the most complex problems facing their businesses. Emic and its m/cluster product enable us to deliver high-availability service levels that are critical to the satisfaction of our customers and our success," said Shawn Hannah, Director of IS at CombineNet. "Emic m/cluster fit CombineNet's needs and we were able to install it quickly with little change required to our core application."

Emic m/cluster is a middleware solution that can be added transparently to existing MySQL® database applications. In addition to m/cluster, Emic provides its clients with integrated application clustering solutions for LAMP and LAMJ stacks, as well as for Apache™. Emic Application Clustering is the most advanced high availability, scalable, dynamic load-balancing architecture for open source application stacks.

"CombineNet customers expect their business solutions to be delivered in real-time in order for them to maximize results," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Emic. "Emic m/cluster provides CombineNet with the support needed to maintain availability for this highly demanding environment."

About CombineNet

CombineNet is revolutionizing the art and science of making decisions. The company's core technology platform, REV™, is a proprietary, patented combinatorial optimization engine that enables decision makers to quickly analyze disparate data in problem-solving scenarios, instantly sorting through the millions of options they could select to find the one they should select. Leveraging the power of REV, CombineNet's Web-based Decision Guidance Tools are applied across the enterprise in the fields of strategic sourcing, transportation and logistics, telecommunications, energy planning and advanced optimization applications. CombineNet has delivered an average 30x ROI for the largest businesses in the world including Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, the United States Postal Service and others.

About Emic

Emic offers solutions that provide availability, scalability and manageability, allowing you to run mission critical applications on low-cost open source platforms. In order to provide high availability, Emic supplies synchronous data replication, hot standby with fail-over, disaster recovery and online maintenance to minimize downtime. To allow your applications to scale seamlessly, Emic provides dynamic load balancing and the ability to add new servers to the cluster in real time. To easily manage your cluster, Emic provides a single management interface for deployment, performance monitoring, health checks and alerts. Emic is headquartered in Emeryville, California. For more information, please visit http://www.emicnetworks.com.

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