MONTREAL, CANADA -- Sand Technology (Nasdaq: SNDT), a leading provider of Information Integration(TM) solutions, said it is targeting large-scale Unix environments with version 2.7 of its Nucleus(R) Analytical Suite, which adds support for Sun(TM) Solaris(TM) and IBM(R) AIX(R). "IBM and Sun between them have a very large marketshare of the data warehousing and information analysis marketplace, and many of the largest data bases are built upon their Solaris and AIX Unix platforms," said Duncan Painter, President, EMEA, Sand Technology. "With support for these platforms, Sand is well positioned to help enterprises make sense out of the massive amounts of data they are compiling." Painter foresees opportunity both for Sand Technology and for target customers: "Nucleus 2.7 opens up an important segment of the database market to us, and has already brought a number of new customer opportunities for our Information Integration(TM) solutions. For our target customers, it also opens the opportunity to implement analytics of all sorts, including CRM analytics. Nucleus allows them to leverage their existing IT investments and achieve a significant ROI." The first installation of Nucleus on Sun Solaris is at Computer Sciences Corp (http://www.csc.com), one of the world's leading consulting and IT services firms. "The Solaris port of Nucleus went in quickly and smoothly and was fully operational within a couple of hours," said Neil Soper, Senior Technical Architect, CSC, United Kingdom. Now shipping, Nucleus Version 2.7 makes Sand's unique, revolutionary Information Integration(TM) technology available on the Unix platforms most frequently deployed for enterprise data stores (Sun Solaris, Compaq(R) Tru64(TM) and IBM AIX). Nucleus is also available for Microsoft(R) Windows 2000/NT(R), and the IBM eServer pSeries (Netfinity(R)). Nucleus Version 2.7 contains other enhancements: -- The new Nucleus Enterprise Manager, which permits remote control of Nucleus over a network, thereby simplifying database set up and administration. -- The new Nucleus Batch Process Manager, which simplifies the batch imports of data into Nucleus from any ODBC source. -- The new Nucleus Load Simulator, which enables users to preview the effects of any data transformations or manipulations that have been programmed into the Nucleus load process. For further information visit www.sand.com