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Linux CoSORT Ships on IBM eServer iSeries

Innovative Routines International (IRI) Inc (The CoSORT Company) announced the availability of its flagship Sort/ETL package, CoSORT, for IBM eServer iSeries, IBM's integrated business server for small to mid-sized enterprises.

CoSORT enables developers and end-users running Linux distributions from SuSE Linux or Turbolinux on IBM eServer iSeries to fully exploit inherent parallel processing, large file I/O, and Internet-related data Webhousing capabilities, using its powerful symmetric multi-processor (SMP) engine and 4GL language, SortCL.

"As the world's first commercial sort developer for Unix, IRI continues its tradition of leading-edge platform support," observed IRI Business Development vice president David Friedland. "Linux CoSORT on IBM eServer iSeries creates sort-related development opportunities for application programmers and fully scalable sort and join performance in load staging and report generation for data warehouse architects."

SortCL (for sort control language) is CoSORT's high-level data definition and manipulation program for data warehouse transforms, loads, and reports. For eCRM and "data Webhouse" analysis of Web logs and Internet traffic, CoSORT features direct collation and grouping of IP address data, metadata conversion for ELF files, support for manual HTML/SGML report encoding, and inner and outer joins.

"CoSORT's products allow eServer iSeries customers using Linux to reduce the amount of time required to leverage information to make decisions, which is critical in today's dynamic e-business environment," said John Reed, IBM director of eServer iSeries product marketing and management. "This announcement affirms IBM's commitment to delivering integrated, enterprise-class Linux solutions to our customers."

About CoSORT / IRI Inc

CoSORT is the world's first, fastest, and most widely licensed commercial sort package on Unix and Windows platforms. CoSORT features several end-user and programmer interfaces to a central, parallel processing sort algorithm in a coroutine architecture. Its front-end programs cater to data warehouse and Webhouse architects requiring selection, joining, sorting, aggregation, conversion, and report generation, as well as mainframe sort users cutting over to open systems. CoSORT's sortcl engine supports Web log meta data, IP Addresses, and markup language report formatting. Including in its perpetual use prices are third party sort replacements, SMP configuration tools, on-line documentation and international technical support. More information on CoSORT/IRI Inc and its family of data management products is available at www.cosort.com/public or through 1-800-333-SORT.

More information on IBM eServer iSeries is available at www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries.