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OuterBay Welcomes PeopleSoft Veteran To Advisory Board

OuterBay, a provider of application data management software, announced the appointment of Peggy Taylor to its advisory board. Taylor, who is currently president of PeopleSoft Investments, Inc., is an investment manager and an advisor to numerous successful emerging software companies. As an advisory board member, Taylor's PeopleSoft application expertise will add tremendous value as OuterBay moves to expand its product line to support the PeopleSoft application platform, as well as other major packaged enterprise applications.

Before joining PeopleSoft Investments, Taylor served from 1989 to 1999 as a Senior vice president and member of the management team at PeopleSoft. In this role, she managed all corporate operations including product development, customer services, professional services, and administration. She was also responsible for the PeopleSoft Business Network, PeopleSoft's e-commerce product division.

Previously, Taylor was vice president of Trust and Investment Management at the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco. Prior to that, she worked at the Bank of California as Vice President and Director of Organization, Planning and Development, where she was in charge of all personnel-related operations.

"OuterBay's approach to data management has broad appeal across industries and across application platforms," said Peggy Taylor. "And most importantly, delivers ROI from existing application infrastructure investments. In today's market, that is the strongest selling point you can present to customers."

"Peggy's successful track record in advising emerging companies will add tremendous value to OuterBay as we embark on the next phase of product and company expansion." said Michael Howard, CEO of OuterBay. "Her PeopleSoft expertise will ensure that OuterBay delivers a market leading solution to PeopleSoft data management challenges."

About OuterBay

OuterBay's application data management solutions are a new class of application-aware infrastructure. OuterBay's software monitors and manages data growth in the application environment and takes action to maintain high service levels of performance and stability. OuterBay's products include Application Resource MonitorT, LiveArchiveT, and Instance GeneratorT. OuterBay's product suite is engineered to work with leading ERP, CRM and supply chain applications and reduces the total cost of ownership associated with enterprise application environments.

Founded in 1997, OuterBay is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the United States, Europe and Australia. Customers include Fortune 1000 and emerging global economy leaders in such industries as high technology, manufacturing, and financial services. For more information on OuterBay's solutions, contact OuterBay at www.outerbay.com, or 408-340-1200.

Egenera Inc Appoints Nicholas J. Preston vice president

Egenera Inc, a leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, announced that Nick Preston has joined the Company as vice president of European operations, based in London. With this appointment, Egenera has established a sales, support and marketing presence in Europe's top financial center.

Preston is initially charged with establishing an Egenera operation in the UK and with recruiting top-notch talent to expand and support the Company's growing customer base in that country. He is also responsible for evaluating the potential of other European markets and for guiding Egenera's reseller strategy in selected geographies.

"With our U.S.-based customers rapidly pulling us into international markets--and expecting the same high quality of account management and technical support they receive from our domestic operation--Egenera needed an executive of Nick's caliber to safeguard our reputation and ensure our success," said Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. "His ability to both build and inspire high-performance teams, coupled with deep sales and management experience, gives me great confidence that Nick will execute flawlessly against our aggressive plan for growth throughout Europe."

"Egenera has a very compelling story, from founder Vern Brownell's heritage as a Wall Street CTO to the BladeFrame system's unique value proposition," said Preston. "By combining mainframe-like reliability and management with the scalability of distributed computing, Egenera provides customers the first viable Lintel platform for mission-critical applications--at half the cost of Unix offerings. From my vantage point, this looks and feels exactly right. Joining Egenera at this stage of its evolution into the world's next great computer company has to be the most exciting job in the industry."

With 25 years in high technology, Preston brings a proven track record for helping U.S.-based companies succeed in international markets. Prior to joining Egenera, he served as vice president of EMEA for Stratus Technologies, where his focus on teamwork, performance and a culture of success consistently drove revenue ahead of objectives. During his tenure as a district manager with Sequent, Preston introduced a vertical-market strategy, landed a roster of blue-chip accounts and expanded the business into new geographies while routinely exceeding quota. Earlier, at Wang, he was promoted three times in five years and led a team that delivered results in the top three percent of Wang's worldwide sales force. Preston began his career at Xerox and was a member of England's Grand Slam rugby team in 1980. He holds a bachelor of science degree in production engineering and management from the University of Nottingham.

About Egenera Inc

Egenera has delivered tomorrow's datacenter today by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company's BladeFrame system helps large enterprises achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive business agility. Privately held, Egenera has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and software systems. This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely positions the Company to reinvent data center computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition.

For details, visit www.egenera.com, or call 508-858-2600.