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Raining Data Corporation
17500 Cartwright Rd.
Irvine, CA 92614-5846
Brian C. Bezdek, Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (949) 442-4400
Fax: (949) 250-8187
brian.bezdek@rainingdata.com


RAINING DATA CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
SIGNING OF TWO YEAR JOINT MARKETING AGREEMENT
WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS

IRVINE, CA. - October 27, 2005

Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA) today announced the signing of a two-year joint marketing agreement with Sun Microsystems. The agreement provides for Raining Data and Sun Microsystems to integrate and jointly sell, market and promote on a worldwide basis the following products; Raining Data’s TigerLogic XDMS Enterprise Server, Raining Data’s TigerLogic Edge Server, Raining Data’s ePharma Application Suite and Sun’s Java System RFID Software and other components of the Java Enterprise System.

About Raining Data

Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), headquartered in Irvine, California, offers enterprise-grade XML database management and information aggregation software solutions and has been providing reliable data management and rapid application deployment solutions for ISVs and developers of database applications for more than three decades. Raining Data's flagship products include: 1) The High-performance TigerLogic® XML Data Management Server (XDMS), which provides flexible, scalable and extensible XML data storage as well as query and retrieval of critical business data across a variety of structured and unstructured information sources, delivering mid-tier scalability and transactional integrity across heterogeneous enterprise databases as well as dynamic extensibility and ease of use, mostly found in repositories and file systems; 2) The D, mvEnterprise® and mvBase® families of powerful Pick® Universal Data Model (Pick UDM) based database management systems that are the choice of more than a thousand application developers worldwide; 3) .NET Integration solutions which allow Pick D3, IBM UniData® and IBM UniVerse® database platform users to take advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services by providing a bridge between Reporting Services or a .NET application and the Pick data source; and 4) Omnis Studio®, a powerful, cross-platform, object-oriented RAD tool for developing sophisticated thick-client, Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications.

Raining Data’s installed customer base includes more than 500,000 active users representing over 20,000 customer sites worldwide, with a significant base of diverse vertical applications. With more than 160 employees and contractors in five countries, Raining Data offers 24x7 customer support and maintains a strong international presence. More information about Raining Data Corporation and its products can be found at www.rainingdata.com.

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Raining Data, Pick, mvDesigner, D3, mvEnterprise, mvBase, Omnis, Omnis Studio and TigerLogic are trademarks of Raining Data Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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