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Enterprise software veteran Ralph Breslauer joins Vertica as CEO
Vertica expands leadership team to support dramatic adoption and sales growth

ANDOVER, Mass., Oct. 9, 2007 - Vertica Systems today announced it has hired enterprise software and database technology veteran Ralph Breslauer as CEO. Breslauer brings more than 20 years of successful business development and software sales growth experience to Vertica's strong leadership team. (See today's release about new members to Vertica's team of advisors at www.vertica.com/company/news_and_events.)

As CEO, Breslauer will help drive Vertica's growth, research and development, sales, customer adoption and strategic partnerships to ensure companies of every size can capitalize on the substantial benefits of column-oriented databases. He will work with co-founders Mike Stonebraker and Andy Palmer as well as chairman of the board Jerry Held to continue Vertica's development as a leader in the market for relational database management systems (RDBMS) for query-intensive applications. Formerly CEO, Palmer will continue to play an active role in the company's growth initiatives and sales and marketing strategies as well as remain a member of the board of directors.

"Ralph has demonstrated a unique ability to innovate and grow software businesses at significant scale," said Held. "His expertise will be invaluable to Vertica as we execute on the next phase of rapid growth for the company."

Breslauer comes to Vertica from contact center software provider Aspect Software, where he served as executive vice president of global sales and marketing, managing over 700 people. During his tenure, the company grew sales from $94 million to over $600 million as it expanded its customer list to include many entries on the Fortune Global 500 list, including a majority of the top airlines, telecommunications companies and commercial banks around the world.

Prior to joining Aspect, Breslauer served as senior vice president of worldwide field operations for eRoom Technology, a leading provider of Web-based collaboration software, now part of EMC. Previously, he was vice president of marketing and business development for Informix Software's $700 million TransAct Business Group. In addition, Breslauer has held a number of other executive roles during his career, including vice president of marketing for databases and tools at database and data warehousing vendor Ardent Software and executive vice president at enterprise software company System Builder Corporation.

"Ralph is joining Vertica at just the right time," said Palmer. "Ralph's deep knowledge of the database and enterprise software industries will ensure we take advantage of every opportunity to solidify our role as a market leader and innovator. Ralph will continue to drive Vertica's innovative open access business model as a new paradigm for successful software companies."

About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for affordable, high-performance database management systems. Co-founded by database research and technology pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker and startup veteran Andy Palmer, Vertica has developed ultra-fast database technology for storing and querying very large databases using industry-standard hardware. With its unmatched scalability, flexibility and ease of use, Vertica's solution will bring corporate database architectures into the 21st century. Vertica is headquartered in Andover, Mass., and has raised $23.5 million in financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.vertica.com.