Computers & Processors:

CoSORT NOW AVAILABLE FOR IBM eServer iSeries OS/400

Innovative Routines International (IRI) Inc (The CoSORT Company) announced the availability of its flagship data sorting and ETL (extract, transform, load) package, CoSORT, on IBM eServer iSeries running the OS/400 V5R1 Portable Applications Solutions Environment (OS/400 PASE). CoSORT developers and end-users can now exploit the copper and silicon-on-insulator processors, dynamic logical partitioning and robust system availability of IBM's integrated business server as they integrate and stage data warehouses and generate reports. CoSORT was also recently ported to, and is now available for, Turbolinux and SuSE Linux on IBM eServer iSeries.

"IBM eServer iSeries users have requested our high-volume e-business sort package and we have responded," observed IRI Business Development vice president David Friedland. "CoSORT is excited about introducing its open systems sort and ETL solutions to the iSeries database and data warehouse/Webhouse communities. We will work with MIS directors and data architects -- both in corporate application development and ISV capacities -- to speed high volume sorts, loads and data transformations on the next generation AS/400."

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 sort algorithm in a coroutine architecture. CoSORT's front-end programs cater to data warehouse architects and clickstream analysts requiring selection, joining, sorting, aggregation, conversion, and report generation, as well as mainframe sort users cutting over to open systems. Including in its perpetual use prices are third party sort replacements, performance controls, 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 (USA).

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

Contact Russell T. Stuart, 321-952-9400 x241, rstuart@iri.com.