HP'S New Offering Provides Red Brick Customers Enhanced Scalability Benefits

    LOS GATOS, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company, today announced plans to make its
data warehouse RDBMS available on Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HWP) HP 9000 V2200
Enterprise Server and the HP-UX 11.00 64-bit operating environment when the
systems are generally available later this year.  The combination of these
high-performance technologies now offers organizations implementing data
warehouses a proven, powerful and highly scalable solution.
    Red Brick Warehouse is the world's fastest and most scalable relational
database for data warehousing, including data marts, online analytical
processing (OLAP) and data mining.  Red Brick Warehouse was designed from the
ground up to handle terabytes of data, support thousands of users, provide
unequaled loading and query response for analysts and business managers and
remain easy to administer and manage.  Red Brick shipped the industry's first
64-bit RDBMS specialized for data warehouse applications in early 1996.  A
64-bit RDBMS enables significant performance and multi-user gains over 32-bit
computing.  These gains benefit the three main aspects of data warehouse
applications:  loading data into the data warehouse, managing the stored data
and processing queries against the data warehouse.
    "Red Brick has a long history of providing seamless migration for its
users," said Chris Erickson, Red Brick president and CEO.  "With this
announcement HP joins Red Brick in enabling customers to effortlessly scale to
levels which handle the most taxing database, data mart, OLAP and data
mining applications."
    "The HP 9000 V2200 Enterprise Server and Red Brick Warehouse provide an
excellent solution to meet the special performance and scalability
requirements of the data warehouse customer," said Valerie Taglio, Director of
Information Management of HP's Enterprise Systems Division.

    More About Red Brick Warehouse
    Red Brick Warehouse is specifically architected for query processing
rather than online transaction processing (OLTP), delivering higher
query-processing and data-loading performance, greater ease of administration
and a richer set of specialized features than OLTP systems.

    More About HP's 9000 V2200 Enterprise Server and Solutions
    The HP -UX 11.00, which supports the new V2200 server, completes HP's
64-bit operating environment evolution by delivering 64-bit application
programming interface (API), datatypes, very large memory up to 32 GB of RAM,
large shared memory and large process data space.  HP-UX 11.00 runs both
32-bit and 64-bit applications, enabling these applications to co-exist and
interoperate, providing users an easy path to 64-bit computing.

    About Red Brick Systems, Inc.
    Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is the leading
provider of high-performance relational database products for data
warehousing.  Its flagship product, Red Brick Warehouse 5.0, is the world's
fastest and most scalable relational database for data warehousing, including
data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.  Red Brick
customers are successful because the company's high-performance products and
service enable more users to analyze more data and make better decisions
faster.
    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, Red Brick and logo and RISQL are registered trademarks,
and The Data Warehouse Company, PaVER and Performance is Everything are
trademarks of Red Brick Systems, Inc.  All other trademarks and registered
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