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Metapa, Inc., a leading provider of database clustering software for decision support, and Sun Microsystems, today announced a pricebuster solution that integrates Metapa's "purpose-built" database clustering software on low-cost, x86-based hardware systems from Sun. This team effort combines Metapa's Cluster DataBase (CDB), pre-tested and certified to run on the Sun's Solaris Operating System (OS) (x86 Platform Edition), and the Sun Fire V60x, V65x, and V20z servers. Metapa's database clustering software on Sun's systems helps bring the power of low-cost computing to data warehousing, allowing customers to store and analyze critical event data at levels of detail that were previously not economically feasible. The joint solution combines servers, storage, database, and clustering software into a powerful integrated system that can handle complex analytical queries at tens to hundreds of terabytes. "Metapa is committed to providing our customers with data warehousing solutions that can take full advantage of the significant price / performance advantages of today's low-cost computing systems", said Dave Powell, president and CEO of Metapa. "We are very excited to team with Sun, and help enablecustomers to analyze data faster and more affordably than ever before." Metapa and Sun will work together to deploy this integrated solution across a number of key vertical markets, including telecommunications, financial services, Internet services, and retail. "Sun is pioneering new and innovative ways for our customers to utilize low-cost computing systems to help reduce total cost of ownership for enterprise IT initiatives", said Cyrus Golkar, CXO Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing of Sun Microsystems. "By combining Metapa's CDB with Sun's Solaris OS x86 platform and x86 line of Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron-based servers, Sun is able to provide one of the industry's first viable low-cost strategy for supporting large-scale business intelligence applications."