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Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs across seven hardware architectures. Its keynote strengths are its robustness, security and performance. Objectivity/DB will be certified for use with the ES variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Objectivity/DB Release 8.0.4.EL will provide transparent interoperability for C++, Java, Smalltalk and SQL++/ODBC applications running on AIX, SGI Advanced Linux(TM) Environment with SGI ProPack(TM) on Altix (32-bit now and 64-bit expected by mid-2004), HP-UX, IRIX(R), LynxOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES), Solaris, Tru-64 UNIX and Windows. "Earlier versions of Linux were released very frequently, posing problems for system software providers and customers alike," said Leon Guzenda, chief technology officer at Objectivity. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux will only be updated every 12 to 18 months, with individual versions supported for five years. Optimizing this port for the SGI Advanced Linux Environment for use on Altix systems strengthens our long standing relationship with SGI, enabling us to compete very effectively in our core markets." A recent benchmark performed by SGI and Objectivity achieved an ingest rate of 32 Terabytes per day on 600 MHz processors running the SGI(R) IRIX(R) operating system. Objectivity expects to dramatically exceed this record-breaking database performance when the same benchmark is repeated on SGI Altix family systems, which share the same high-throughput SGI supercomputing architecture as the tested system. Since its launch a year ago, SGI Altix has defied industry expectations by becoming the first Linux system to commercially scale to 128 Intel Itanium(R) 2 processors in a single system image -- and thousands more via clustering -- using the powerful SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) global shared-memory architecture. The Altix architecture handles large data sets with ease and is integrated with SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS(TM), providing ideal server and storage complements to Objectivity/DB. The combination of Objectivity/DB and Red Hat Enterprise Linux will provide a very cost effective, scalable solution for high throughput applications on a range of additional platforms. "The Linux version of Objectivity/DB has mainly been deployed in engineering and scientific applications up until recently," said Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity. "We expect to see an increasing number of our customers in the telecom, Government and process control markets migrating from manufacturer specific versions of Unix to Linux over the next twelve months."