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September 12, 2005

Onyx Questions the Customer Value of Oracle-Siebel Combination
Believes Mega-Vendor Approach Ignores Customer Demand for More Flexibility and Choice

Bellevue, WA - Onyx Software (Nasdaq: ONXS) today announced its reaction to Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) announcement that it is acquiring Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL). Janice P. Anderson, Onyx Chair and Chief Executive Officer said, "Oracle's acquisition of Siebel seems to be based on the premise that customers want fewer choices, rather than more. We're finding just the opposite. Many enterprise customers are looking to increase business value with solutions that easily leverage their existing IT environments. Mega-vendors tend to integrate within their own product suites and not with the diversity of processes and systems that customers have to deal with today.

"Many customers don't want to buy another massive solution suite in order to advance their business goals. In general, we believe enterprises prefer flexible solutions that enable business agility in the face of dynamic market conditions as well as integrate existing investments quickly and cost effectively," said Anderson.

"Onyx has had success listening to enterprise customers and delivering solutions that are flexible and powerful enough to address their biggest challenges, whether it's increased competition, regulatory requirements or changing customer needs," Anderson continued. "We believe this acquisition announcement is a catalyst for enterprises to re-evaluate their existing Siebel Enterprise or PeopleSoft CRM implementations."

In recent months, Onyx has introduced a series of new solutions blending CRM with powerful business process management tools that enable organizations to capture and centralize customer information, execute business processes, and analyze results. These solutions build upon Onyx's mature, service oriented architecture, giving customers the flexibility to configure the solution around their needs, and adapt to changes in their market quickly and easily.

About Onyx Software
Onyx Software Corporation (Nasdaq: ONXS) is a worldwide leader in customer process software and solutions for the enterprise. Onyx provides flexible solutions that enable organizations to automate, manage, and evolve their customer processes quickly and cost-effectively for strategic advantage. By providing an integrated suite of customer process automation applications encompassing customer management, process management, and analytics capabilities, Onyx enables enterprises to reduce costs, increase productivity and grow revenue. Major companies are aligning their customer-facing departments and managing their customer processes with Onyx software - companies such as Amway Corporation, Delta Dental, Mellon Financial Corporation, The Regence Group and State Street Corporation. More information can be found at (888) ASK-ONYX or info@onyx.com

Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the type of software solutions preferred by enterprises and the likelihood that enterprises will re-evaluate their existing Siebel Enterprise or PeopleSoft CRM implementations. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect Onyx's actual results include, but are not limited to future software purchasing patterns of enterprises, the success of the Oracle acquisition of Siebel and the "Important Factors That May Affect Our Business, Our Results of Operations and Our Stock Price" described in our quarterly report on form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2005. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon these forward-looking statements that speak only as to the date of this release. Onyx undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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Contact: Bob Craig
Onyx Software
617-314-6846

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