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FREE advanced technology software easily enables the extraction, transformation and loading of data, benefiting the widest range of users in companies of all sizes

Hamburg, Germany, August 20th, 2002 --SOLONDE (solutions on demand) today announced the availability of Warehouse Workbench (WWB) Version 4.95, the first data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) product for under $1,000. A free version, in addition to a 14-day trail version of the full product, is available at www.solonde.com.

"The marketplace will be served well by a low-cost, high-value product that enables a far greater range of companies to benefit from data warehousing," said Bill Inmon, author and the industry renowned `Father of Data Warehousing'. "Warehouse Workbench makes it possible for firms to quickly and easily gather and standardize data from different sources, at a fraction of the price they have been expected to pay up until now. Mid-size and smaller enterprises need the insights that data warehousing provides as much as larger companies do."

See www.solonde.com