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Confio Software Announces Parks Canada as New Customer

Increasing Adoption of Confio in Government Sector

December 5, 2005 – Boulder, CO - Confio Software, the leading performance tool for Oracle databases serving Java applications, today announced that Parks Canada, the agency of the Canadian government responsible for operating parks and cultural sites across the country, has licensed Confio DBFlash™ for Oracle for use in optimizing database performance within agency business operations.

DBFlash will be utilized to improve performance of critical financial and accounting systems throughout Parks Canada operations. Parks Canada made the selection of DBFlash based on its use of industry best-practice Wait-Time methods to identify Oracle database performance problems of highest impact to users. The use of DBFlash is part of an overall effort to utilize best available tools and techniques to achieve higher efficiencies and cost savings throughout Parks Canada. DBFlash has been demonstrated to yield an ROI in excess of 800% based on reduced capacity needs for database operations.

“Confio is honored proud to have Parks Canada as a partner”, said Don Bergal, Chief Operating Officer of Confio. “More government agencies throughout the world have come to rely on Confio products as a way to streamline operations and gain maximum operational efficiency. They have demonstrated that our payback can be extremely fast in reducing cost of their database hardware and software investment”. Confio software products have been licensed by government organizations, both civilian and military in North America, South America and Europe.

DBFlash is licensed for use in monitoring and tuning Oracle databases, identifying the most critical bottlenecks affecting end-user performance and identifying steps to quickly resolve them. Confio’s agentless operation allows monitoring of up to 80 databases from a single central Repository, without installation of any executable agent on the production server. As a result, monitoring is accomplished without additional load on the monitored server.

About Confio Software

Located in Boulder, Colorado, Confio Software is a leading developer of IT performance tools that find and eliminate inefficiency in customer infrastructure, unlocking the true value of their investment. Using a unique Wait-Time analysis, Confio software optimizes database performance by measuring how long it takes to complete each portion of a task. Confio’ Wait- Event based Resource Mapping Methodology (RMM) enables the company’s DBFlash software product to resolve the most difficult Oracle database problems and reduce the cost of Oracle operations. For more information, please visit www.confio.com