Red Brick Data Warehouse Products Now Available Through Hewlett-Packard's
                            Worldwide Sales System

    LOS GATOS, Calif. Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(R), and Hewlett-Packard Company
(NYSE: HWP) today announced an agreement that enables HP to resell Red Brick's
data warehouse products and services through its Americas Local Products
Organization (LPO).  This agreement provides Red Brick with a strong reseller
capability in a wide range of markets.  It provides HP customers the ability
to acquire Red Brick's products and services, as part of an integrated HP
solution, through HP's Americas LPO.
    Red Brick offers an integrated, comprehensive platform of software
products designed specifically to quickly build and deploy scalable,
high-performance data warehouse and data mart applications, to meet customers'
decision support requirements.  These products include Red Brick Warehouse,
Red Brick Data Mine(TM) and Red Brick product maintenance support contracts
and implementation service packages.  Red Brick creates and markets data
warehouse and data mart solutions that operate on UNIX(R) and Microsoft(R)
Windows NT(R) platforms from HP.
    "This enhanced relationship with Hewlett-Packard and its business partners
represents a major expansion of our worldwide distribution channel for Red
Brick products and services," said Chris Erickson, president and CEO of Red
Brick.  "Many of our customers, prospects and business partners have existing
relationships with Hewlett-Packard.  This new relationship simplifies the
acquisition of our market-leading data warehouse products and services to
satisfy the most demanding of data warehouse and data mart deployment
requirements."

    About Hewlett-Packard
    HP's Americas Local Products Organization serves the HP Enterprise and
Commercial Sales organizations by procuring third party products and services
for integration in complete technology solutions for HP's customers.  HP is
the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the
1998 World Cup soccer tournament and the 1997 Tournament of France.  Selected
for its technology and skills in supporting and managing mission-critical
applications, HP will help create an information-management infrastructure for
handling game-scoring; media centers; personnel accreditation; hotel
information; and various ticketing, stadium, warehouse and back-office
operations.
    The Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing,
Internet and Intranet solutions, services, communications products and
measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality
and support.  It is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States,
with computer-related revenue in excess of $31.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal
year.  HP has more than 120,000 employees, world-wide and enjoyed total
revenues of $38.4 billion in 1996.
    Further information about HP and its products can be found on the World
Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

    About Red Brick
    Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is a leading provider
of comprehensive, integrated, high-performance software products designed
specifically for data warehousing.  Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse,
is a fast and scalable relational database for data warehousing, including
data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.  Red Brick
helps businesses transform data into information for faster, superior
decision-making.
    Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com.  News releases and corporate background information
may also be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, call
800-758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
    NOTE:  Red Brick, the Red Brick logo and The Data Warehouse Company are
registered trademarks and Red Brick Data Mine is a trademark of Red Brick
Systems, Inc.  UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other
countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited.  X/Open is a
registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd.
in the UK and other countries.  Microsoft and Windows NT are registered
trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation.  All other trademarks and registered
trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective
holders.

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