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SUN-SYBASE RECORD-BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT

Sun Microsystems Inc, a leader in systems and solutions that make the Net work, and Sybase Inc, a leading e-Business infrastructure provider, announced that their Enterprise Data Reference Architecture has made possible the creation and performance of the largest data warehouse in the world, according to an independent audit performed by InfoSizing Inc. By implementing this architecture-driven solution, customers can save $1 million per terabyte (TB) of input data. As demonstrated by this verified audit, total savings would result in nearly $50 million. Beyond increasing efficiencies as a result of deploying this solution, other important benefits include investment protection, scalability and decreased complexity, leading to a reduction in storage requirements by as much as 75 percent.

"The Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture, running on Sun midrange servers with Sun StorEdge 9960 systems and Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Mulitplex, has demonstrated several significant achievements -- the most notable of these includes storing 48.2 TB of raw input data (179 billion rows) in a realistic data warehouse schema using only 22 TB of total storage (data compression of 0.46)," said Francois Raab, president of InfoSizing Inc. "This is the largest database demonstrated and verified to date. Furthermore, query performance scaled to more than 94 percent with multiple server nodes; and data loading slowed down minimally (less than 7 percent) when concurrent queries were being run."

Conventional implementations with the same input data would consume more than 300 TB of storage. And with lower maintenance costs, smaller data center footprint, less power consumption and more efficient resource utilization, the Sun and Sybase Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture creates a significantly more manageable and cost-effective environment than competitive offerings.

Sun and Sybase Reference Architecture Offers Next-Generation Very Large Data Warehouse (VLDW) Solution

Faced with the dynamic environment of mergers, consolidations and global competition, successful companies must collect, manage and analyze mountains of data from multiple resources. The VLDW from Sun and Sybase addresses previously unmanageable data warehouse and data analysis needs, helping companies make better informed, business-critical decisions, while keeping costs down.

The Sun and Sybase Reference Architecture substantially reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise analytics by reducing data storage requirements and improving performance} -- delivering query speeds 10 to 1,000 times faster. Furthermore, as an iForce solution, the Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture is jointly designed, integrated and tuned to substantially reduce installation and set-up time for customers by as much as 80 percent. All of these factors contribute to increased capabilities, greater productivity and increased competitiveness in today's challenging global markets.

The Reference Architecture has been designed and demonstrated with the optimal integration of Sun and Sybase elements, including: Sybase's highly scalable analytical database, Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex, on a mix of Sun's UltraSPARC II and UltraSPARC III processor-based servers running the Solaris 8 Operating environment, specifically the Sun Fire 4810 and 6800 servers and the Sun Enterprise 4500 and 6000 servers, as well as Sun StorEdge 9960 systems and Sun StorEdge T3 arrays.

To learn more about the InfoSizing audit, please visit: www.sun.com/architectures-platforms/refarch/edw/report.html.

Sun and Sybase Advantages

Reference Architectures are an important part of Sun's iForce Initiative -- Sun's effort to bring together Sun, its customers and partners to build solutions that help customers leverage the information technology quickly, safely and for a lower cost. By deploying the Sun and Sybase Reference Architecture in Sun iForce Centers, Sun provides customers with a collaborative environment to build proof-of-concept demonstrations that tailor the Reference Architectures to meet their unique environments.

About Sybase Business Intelligence Division

The Sybase Business Intelligence Division supplies the foundation for enterprise analytics applications that businesses use to achieve competitive advantage by supporting a better understanding of their markets and customers, reducing risk, and making faster business decisions. Sybase provides an end-to-end enterprise analytics value chain, consisting of its own integrated analytic infrastructure products and best-of-breed products from strategic partners. Key Sybase products include Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex, Sybase's highly scalable analytical database, which delivers unsurpassed performance and lowest TCO from customers' decision support applications and Industry Warehouse Studio -- Sybase's infrastructure for jump starting the development of enterprise analytic applications for financial services, media, healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications and the Internet.

About Sybase Inc

Sybase is the enterprise infrastructure company that bridges heterogeneous technologies. With industry-leading Enterprise Portal (EP), mobile and wireless solutions, essential integration products, and high performance database management systems, Sybase is one of the largest independent software companies in the world. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: www.sybase.com.

About Sun Microsystems Inc

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.