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Soheil Raissi Joins Raining Data as
Vice President of Product Development and Professional Services

IRVINE, CA., September 18, 2001-Raining Data Corporation (NASDAQ: RDTA) today announced the appointment of Soheil Raissi as Vice President of Product Development and Professional Services. Raissi comes to Raining Data with over twenty years of experience in information technology, software product development, systems integration and product marketing.

"We are very pleased to announce that Soheil has joined the Raining Data management team," said Carlton H. Baab, President and CEO of Raining Data. Baab further stated, "Soheil's broad experience makes him uniquely suited for this important role. His experience in rapid product development and systems consulting will be a valuable asset in streamlining our software development processes, enhancing Raining Data's ability to deliver products that meet the growing business needs of our customers. This action reflects our on-going commitment to our current database and tools product offerings."

Raissi has extensive experience in managing software product development organizations as well as building professional services and consulting practices. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Product Development at Equative, a software company providing Web-based project management products. In the past, Raissi has held senior management positions in product development and professional services with such companies as Zland.com and CAIR Systems.

Raissi was the founder, president and chief product architect of Information Technology Group, a software development company that provided records management products and services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. He also owned Unicom Systems, a consulting firm that provided software development, technical and management consulting services to various industries.

The company also announced that John Bramley would assume the new role of Vice President, New Applications. In his new role, Bramley will be focused on Raining Data's strategy to leverage our existing technologies to create high growth business opportunities for the company. In addition, Bramley will continue to work closely with the sales, marketing, customer service and software development organizations in a capacity which leverages his extensive knowledge of our current database and tools offerings to produce the future product roadmap for these offerings. "In his new role John will be working with technology partners in an effort to expand our product offerings," stated Baab. Baab continued, "John's experience with Raining Data technologies and their uses makes him the ideal candidate to manage our endeavor to find new market opportunities for our technology."

About Raining Data

Raining Data Corporation, headquartered in Irvine, California, offers a suite of software infrastructure products that enable developers to create innovative applications. Raining Data's flagship products are: 1) a family of powerful multidimensional database management systems that are the choice of thousands of application developers worldwide. Theses include D³®, mvEnterprise® and mvBase®. 2) mvDesigner, an object-oriented rapid application development (RAD) tool developed for use with multidimensional database applications; and 3) Omnis Studio® -- a powerful, cross-platform, object-oriented RAD tool that is well suited for developing sophisticated thick-client, Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications.

The statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to discussions relating to the integration of PickAX and its technologies, ability to operate at positive cash flow and market acceptance of mvDesigner. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to numerous risks and uncertainties and the Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. In particular, among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are difficulties related to the integration of the newly acquired business, increased competition, and the timing and market acceptance of new products and services. Please consult the various reports and documents filed by Raining Data Corporation, formerly known as Omnis Technology Corporation, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2001. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any responsibility to update or revise any forward-looking statement provided in this news release.

mvDesigner, D³, mvEnterprise, mvBase, Omnis, Omnis Studio, Power95, R91, AP, Mentor, and Pick Systems are registered trademarks of Raining Data Corporation.