Press Release

Owens & Minor Selects Appfluent Technology
Appfluent software to help manage rapid growth in Business Intelligence environment

Rockville, MD – October 4th, 2005 - Appfluent Technology, Inc., the leader in query performance and data usage software, today announced that Owens and Minor (NYSE: OMI) – the leading vendor of medical and surgical supplies, distributing over 130,000 products to over 4,000 health providers – has selected Appfluent Query Performance™ software to gain better visibility into the usage of its mission critical supply chain extranet that leverages Business Objects.

“It is very important for us to ensure that we continue delivering significant value to our extranet users – both in terms of business information as well as user-experience,” said Don Stoller, Director, Information Management Business Group, at Owens & Minor. “Appfluent Query Performance software gives us the needed insight into data usage and query performance to help us be proactive in managing the growth in our Business Intelligence environment.”

Appfluent Query Performance software helps companies reduce the time and resources spent on resolving query performance issues by instantly delivering insight into how users interact with data. Appfluent’s unique architecture does not require intrusive agents and does not add any performance overhead, eliminating implementation risks and reducing the total cost of ownership.

“Owens & Minor is an important customer for us, and we look forward to a long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationship,” said Appfluent CEO Frank Gelbart. “They clearly understand the benefits of optimizing IT investment to drive strategic and operational leadership. With the Appfluent Query Performance software, Owens & Minor can proactively manage the growth of this mission critical customer facing system.”

About Appfluent Technology

Appfluent Technology a leading provider of query performance and data usage software designed to help IT organizations improve the performance of Business Intelligence (BI) and enterprise applications, reduce the number of databases they maintain and quickly deploy new applications. Appfluent provides a suite of products that clean up and consolidate data, optimize query performance based on usage, and rapidly analyze applications for both test and production environments. For more information about Appfluent Technology, please visit the company’s web site at www.appfluent.com.