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Ascential Software Corporation today announced that the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite supports Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). The combined solution will enable IT organizations to develop computing systems that leverage Ascential Software's single data integration platform and the new self-configuring and self-optimizing capabilities of Solaris 10 OS. Ascential Software's support is an example of the company's continued commitment to supporting heterogeneous multi-platform computing environments and delivering a high-performance and versatile data integration solution. “As a result of our support for Solaris 10, joint customers of Ascential Software and Sun Microsystems can drive down their cost of operations and deliver unparalleled levels of security, performance, availability and utilization,” said Pete Inzana, director of product management for Connectivity, SOA and Technology Partners at Ascential Software. “In addition, joint customers will experience the benefits of running the one of the industry's most robust data integration solution on an extremely high-performance operating system.” Solaris 10 represents more than $500 million and 3,000 engineering years of investment. With over 600 new features, Solaris 10 OS allows enterprises to quickly accommodate surging workloads; consolidate multiple platforms into one easy-to-maintain system; and automatically identify component failures before they happen. More than one million registered licenses have been distributed for Solaris 10 Operating System since Jan. 31, 2005. In addition, 85 percent of Fortune 500 IT Organizations have deployed the Solaris Operating System. And with more than 12,000 partner applications, Solaris offers the second largest ecosystem of partners. “Our customers require flexible networks in order to manage increasingly stringent IT demands and adapt to evolving business needs,” said Stephen Borcich, Vice President, Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “We are continuing to make the task of managing IT and aligning it to business needs easier, by ensuring that our products integrate seamlessly with those of industry leaders, such as Ascential Software.” The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite is a comprehensive data integration solution that profiles, cleanses, and transforms data from virtually any application or system regardless of data volume or latency. Ascential Software's integrated offering is designed to help companies streamline operations, improve customer support, expedite business transactions, and make better tactical and strategic decisions on the basis of the best available information. The Suite provides unlimited scalability through parallel processing, complete meta data management, any-to-any data source and application connectivity, and delivers on-demand data integration seamlessly within an enterprise's service-oriented architecture. With support for all leading hardware platforms, operating systems, databases, application servers, messaging middleware, and systems management platforms, the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite leverages investments in the production infrastructure, people and methodologies that run and automate businesses.