Overstock.com Standardizes on GoldenGate for Transactional Data Management; Leading Online Retailer Selects GoldenGate Software for High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Zero-Downtime Migrations, Real-Time Data Warehousing

Business Wire, August 1, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO & SALT LAKE CITY -- GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that Overstock.com(R) (Nasdaq:OSTK) has selected GoldenGate to manage the leading Internet retailer's high volumes of data across the enterprise. Overstock.com plans to deploy GoldenGate solutions for zero-downtime system migrations, high availability and disaster recovery, and real-time data warehousing, reporting and analytics initiatives. Serving millions of customers via its popular online retail outlet, Overstock.com selected GoldenGate to reduce infrastructure costs, minimize overhead and enable real-time data for enhanced customer analytics.

"The more we learn about GoldenGate, the more we recognize the technology's value in supporting multiple projects currently underway," said Shawn Schwegman, senior vice president of technology for Overstock.com. "Partnering with GoldenGate enables us to migrate hardware, database, and operating system environments, and to continue to make upgrades over time, without compromising quality of service to our customers. In terms of its breadth and flexibility, GoldenGate was the only solution capable of meeting our needs."

GoldenGate Streamlines Operations, Overstock.com Plans for Future Growth

Overstock.com will roll out the project in several phases. Initially, as Overstock.com upgrades from Oracle 9i RAC to Oracle 10g, GoldenGate will facilitate system migrations with zero downtime. Overstock.com will also standardize on GoldenGate for high availability and disaster recovery on its online production sites -- replacing home-grown scripts and batch processes for added reliability and efficiencies. And GoldenGate will serve a major role in real-time data warehousing for the online retailer: moving data into a Teradata warehouse for performing in-depth customer analytics.

Across the organization, GoldenGate will provide the foundation for Overstock.com to improve operations and better serve its customers. "GoldenGate is contributing significantly to streamlining the infrastructure, while leveraging existing IT investments for a deeper view of the customer," explained Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management at GoldenGate. "But we are also looking ahead with Overstock.com to plan for additional demand. Ultimately, GoldenGate will enable a scalable infrastructure for performance gains in a distributed computing environment."

GoldenGate has over 230 customers and 1500 product installations worldwide. The company's solutions are used to manage business initiatives including high availability and disaster recovery, high performance distributed computing, transactional data integration, and compliance.

About Overstock.com

Overstock.com, Inc. is an online "closeout" retailer offering discount, brand-name merchandise for sale over the Internet. The company offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory liquidation distribution channel. Overstock.com, Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ National Market System and can be found online at www.overstock.com. Overstock.com is a registered trademark of Overstock.com, Inc.

About GoldenGate Software

GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. GoldenGate provides technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data in real time across major databases and environments. Fortune 500 companies use GoldenGate solutions to manage critical initiatives such as high availability and disaster recovery, high performance distributed computing, transactional data integration, and compliance. Customers include Bank of America, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Dell. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISVs, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, IDX Systems Corporation, Insession Technologies, a business unit of Transaction Systems Architects, Inc., MySQL AB, Teradata, a division of NCR, and Hewlett-Packard. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the integration of the GoldenGate solutions into Overstock.com, the benefits and features of the solutions, and such other risks as identified in Overstock.com's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, and all Overstock's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain and identify important factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in Overstock's projections or forward-looking statements.