A GSA Schedule listing provides government buyers a pre-negotiated best
price that automatically satisfies competitive bidding requirements.
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About SAND

SAND Technology provides organisations worldwide with a unique vantage
point from which to survey the competitive landscape . SAND Technology and Nucleus are registered trademarks,
and SAND Analytic Server, analytics @ the speed of business, and all
related SAND- and Nucleus-based marks and designs, are trademarks of SAND
Technology Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.

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The Search Appliance SBE can be administered by a non-technical user and is
extensively customizable. Thunderstone 's enterprise Search
Appliance models also are sold through GSA. Thunderstone's GSA contract number is
GS-35F-0914P. Applications of TEXIS include online publishing; catalogs;
classified advertising; document management; text mining; categorization;
intelligence, and web indexing.

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PRESS RELEASE SAND Analytic Server Adopted by Deutsche Post Direkt

SAND Technology Inc . When the project is completed,
Deutsche Post Direkt customers and prospects will be able to use this
technology to focus their marketing programs by conducting immediate
interactive analysis on the addresses of all households that are of
interest to them, prior to actually purchasing the lists. SAND's advanced
analytic data management products empower users with a better understanding
of their business environment through better access to their business data. SAND Technology has offices in
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Central Europe, and is
traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SNDT. Such forward-looking statements are based
on reasonable assumptions and current expectations, but involve known and
unknown risks and uncertainties.

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Government agencies have an economical new
solution for searching their web sites and intra-nets. Most
U. federal agencies and some state and local governments may purchase
through the GSA Schedule, also known as Federal Supply Service. It offers many features not found in competitor
appliances, including the ability to:

-- Index any third-party information from the internet.
-- Perform "wildcard" searches ("*" character ignored by other
appliances).

The Search Appliance SBE contains most features of Thunderstone's
enterprise-level versions. Thunderstone's TEXIS text-oriented relational
database technology powers the Search Appliance, or may be licensed
separately.

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Thunderstone Search Appliance

Thunderstone Search Appliances were rated a "Great Choice" and praised for
"simplicity, low cost of ownership , and extensibility" in a recent
independent analysis by the Patricia Seybold Group.
-- Crawl file systems directly without webserver software. Competitive pressures,
availability and cost competitiveness of competing products, timing of
significant orders, management of potential growth, risks of new business
areas including our new business model, international expansion, decreased
demand for computer software and services due to weakening economic
conditions and market acceptance of SAND products are important factors
which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected .

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PRESS RELEASE New Search Appliance Available via GSA Schedule

The Search Appliance SBE provides a turn-key solution for
indexing many document formats including word processing; PDFs;
presentations; and most anything found on the web.

According to numerous studies, office workers spend large proportions of
their time -- as much as 30% -- trying to locate information.
-- Combine results from multiple collections ("metasearch").

For more information, visit http://www.

ABOUT THUNDERSTONE SOFTWARE

Thunderstone Software LLC is a pioneer of search engine technology,
providing text retrieval products to industry, government, and educational
institutions since 1981.thunderstone .

Terms of the contract were not announced.

Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities
Reform Act of 1995 and are intended to be subject to the safe harbour
protection provided by this Act.
More information about factors that potentially could affect SAND's
financial results is included in SAND's current Annual Report and in SAND's
reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission .

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The Thunderstone
Search Appliance SBE (Small Business Edition) now is listed on the
Information Technology Schedule of the U. General Services Administration
(GSA). The
Thunderstone Search Appliance SBE can dramatically reduce this figure and
have a direct positive impact on an organization's ability to accomplish
its mission. The SBE optionally can be upgraded to a 250,000-
or 500,000-document enterprise version.thunderstone.com/images/SBE-Hi. (NASDAQ: SNDT), an innovator in analytic application infrastructure, today announced
that Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH, a company specializing in providing
customized addresses and document management services, will employ the SAND
Analytic Server to build a centralized database that will enable high
performance analysis of customer potential. Because SAND
Analytic Server does not require any external indexing or special data
design schema, the footprint of the resulting SAND Analytic Server is much
smaller than that of an equivalent relational database, and all detailed
data is available to business users immediately after it has been loaded ,
allowing them to perform complex queries on any of the addresses contained
in the database.

About Deutsche Post Direkt

Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH is a subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG and ranks as
one of the leading providers of addresses and document management
solutions.postdirekt .

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S. It indexes up to
100,000 documents or web pages for a total investment of only $4,529
including two years of support.
-- Add or remove documents from the index instantly.

The company's decision was based on the superior query performance provided
by SAND Analytic Server.

The company employs a staff of approximately 330 at its five
locations (Bonn, Mannheim, Leipzig, Cologne and Unna).
SAND Technology-based solutions include CRM analytics, web analytics,
financial analysis and specialised business intelligence applications for
government and security, healthcare , telecommunications, financial
services, retail and other business sectors.

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com or call
216-820 -2200. Even with a high degree of indexing, conventional
relational database systems would be unable to handle the large volume of
data managed in the Deutsche Post Direkt database -- some 37 million
addresses containing approximately 80 attributes each.de.

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unanticipated events may occur which could cause actual results to differ
materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed
or implied by such forward -looking statements.