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For Immediate Release
October 7, 2002

Tokyo, Japan - Neoteny Co., Ltd. (Joichi Ito, CEO) announced today the establishment of Neoteny Venture Development Co., Ltd., (NVD) a consulting firm focused on new business development and corporate venture consulting. Matsumoto Hidehiro will be the CEO of the company which will begin business immediately. Neoteny Co., Ltd., which will be spinning out its venture incubation consulting business into the new company, will focus investing.

NVD will provide entrepreneurship support and seminars, cross-industry networking opportunities and support for spin-outs of companies. NVD been developing business for a year preceding its establishment and has already delivered five engagements to large companies including a major telecommunications firm, a telecommunications systems integration firm and an information device manufacturer. NVD plans to grow the business and expand its area of coverage.

Neoteny Co., Ltd. (http://www.neoteny.com) was established in 1999 by Joichi Ito. Neoteny Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focused on investing in information technology companies and was originally established as an incubator to provide additional consulting services.
Neoteny Venture Development Co., Ltd. (http://www.nvd.co.jp/) is a corporate venture, new business consulting, entrepreneurship support and new business development company.

"PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced Open Source Database, has a large and dedicated following in Japan," observes Geoff Davidson, CEO of PostgreSQL, Inc., "It has taken almost two years to identify a company with extraordinary PostgreSLQ database competencies who also shares our passion and commitment to delivering only the highest value and Values to all our mutual clients in Japan. Vanten is that company, and I'm pleased to announce that today we have reached an agreement to have them represent our products, services and other partners as our first PRIME Certified Alliance Program."

In addition to providing Japanese language support for PostgreSQL users worldwide, as the Prime CAP for Japan, Vanten will be leading PostgreSQL, Inc.'s sales, service, support, development and innovation initiatives throughout Japan, including:

- Commercial Replication solutions (eRServer)
- Enterprise Customer Relationship Management (SePICK)
- Annual Support Certificates
- Certified Alliance Partnerships
- Certified Training Programs
- Product Certifications (hardware and software)
- Custom commercial and retail products of our other partners.

Vanten K.K., an Open Source Solutions company based in Tokyo Japan, led by veterans of the Japan Internet industry, Vanten has quickly established itself as a leader in Open Source centric business solutions. Vanten's experience with PostgreSQL Database development, support and maintenance makes the company a natural fit to partner with PostgreSQL Inc., the world's leading provider of PostgreSQL database design, consulting and support services.

Vanten is led by CEO Chris Phelan, former President of Exodus Japan, also helped create one of Japan's other real Internet success stories, Global OnLine Japan (GOL), where he held the positions of VP of Marketing, VP of Sales and Chief Operating Officer.

Neil van Wouw, Vanten's COO, was investment company Neoteny's Chief Technology Officer, and prior to that was CTO of GOL.

Vanten offers business application development centered around open source platforms. Database development is Vanten's specialty. "We have used PostgreSQL on a number of client projects and are extremely happy with the performance it delivers." Says Chris Phelan, CEO of Vanten. "Database applications are one of the hottest areas in Open Source Solutions development."

Vanten has successfully won contracts with such companies as Tsutaya Online, Japan Communications Inc. and the Daiae OMC/Neoteny joint venture Blockline. Vanten's experience with developing complex business solutions gives the company an advantage when it comes to winning new customers. "Having managed companies and built in house solutions for our own businesses gives us a tremendous advantage in understanding our customer's needs." Explained Phelan. "We work with clients in the early planning stages of a project and add value that other developers just cannot deliver. That is why our customers choose Vanten." Added Phelan.

Businesses in Japan's recession strapped economy are looking for the best cost performance in IT solutions. Vanten's focus on developing the best solutions using Open Source technologies makes it the smart economical choice. Companies find that not only can Vanten deliver on their quality expectations but can save them money by eliminating　expensive software licenses from solutions.

Backed by PostgreSQL Inc.'s new product line and support services, Vanten intends to expand its database development, product and support service offering. The two companies plan to launch a Japanese version of PostgreSQL Inc.'s Replication server by November 2002 to take advantage of demand for scalable database solutions in the market. In addition, the two companies will offer enterprise quality support and maintenance packages for corporations with PostgreSQL database deployments.

About Vanten

Vanten K.K. began operations and was incorporated as a kabushiki-kaisha on October 1st 2001. Vanten offers a full suite of open source software support services and solutions. With capabilities in website database development and integration, billing systems development, iMode and Jphone, EZWeb, backend development, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL programming and database maintenance and support services. For more information about Vanten K.K., contact the Public Relations at (03) 5833-2703 or press@vanten.com.

About PostgreSQL, Inc.

PostgreSQL, Inc. is a federally incorporated Canadian company, founded in early 1999, substantially owned and controlled at the Board level by three of the four original founding members of the PostgreSQL Global Development Project.

PostgreSQL, Inc.'s Mission is to promote the continuous growth in use, application development, training, and certification programs for PostgreSQL by providing companies and individuals with a commercial, full service support organization to meet their business, information and database needs. PostgreSQL, Inc. provides clients, expert consultants, partners and open source community volunteers with both financial recognition and project opportunities while expanding PostgreSQL database functions, applications and capabilities. For more information about PostgreSQL Inc. please visit www.pgsql.com, or contact Media & Public Relations at (902) 542-0713 or pr@pgsql.com.