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With escalating market growth for its real-time data management solutions for complex inter-related data, Objectivity, Inc. today announces general availability of the new Objectivity/DB Release 9.2 for the AMD Opteron platform. The AMD Opteron processor delivers next-generation performance with simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing capabilities and eliminates the 4 Gigabyte object cache limit imposed by 32-bit architectures, creating a significant performance benefit for applications which have large datasets held in memory. Today, 90 percent of the top 100 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies, or their subsidiaries, rely on AMD Opteron processor-based systems. Objectivity, markets Objectivity/DB to ISVs, OEMs and end-users for real-time processing of complex information, document and process management, scientific computing and complex defense and security applications. Objectivity/DB 9.2 delivers scalability, high availability, performance and interoperability, supporting customers with a business need for high performance and handling complex data relationships. This release also includes a Parallel Query Engine that can exploit the extra memory addressing by caching frequently requested database pages in memory. Objectivity's customers develop solutions built on the Objectivity/DB platform for the government, telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, manufacturing, biotechnology, financial services, scientific and IT markets. Enhanced Scalability The AMD Opteron processor is a highly scalable architecture designed to help minimize the integration complexities presented by business environments today and in the future. Objectivity/DB is the first commercially available database that is scalable to Exabyte-level for customers building today's mission-critical data fusion applications. This inherently flexible Objectivity release has all the necessary features to support the most demanding scalability challenges. "The AMD Opteron is at the leading edge of single and multi-core processor architectures," said Jacques Darakdjian, vice president of engineering at Objectivity, Inc. "An AMD Opteron processor can provide up to 24 GB/second peak, considerably reducing I/O bottlenecks inherent in many classes of data intensive applications providing a more efficient approach to computing." "Objectivity delivered the industry's first database to run on a 64-bit architecture with the launch of the DEC Alpha series in 1992," said Leon Guzenda, chief technology officer at Objectivity. "We are seeing increasing demand for 64-bit processing in the high performance computing arena. Objectivity/DB 9.2 for the AMD Opteron platform provides an elegant transition path for our customers, protecting and migrating their existing data as they gradually phase out 32-bit processors." The User Experience -- Investment Protection, Scalability and Performance "Within the Objectivity strategic product roadmap, we view this new release of the Objectivity/DB platform as part of our continuing technology migration path offering investment protection, scalability and performance to our high-end customers," said Jay Jarrell, president and CEO at Objectivity. "Objectivity understands our customers' technology environments and the changing business needs they experience. Our customers entrust Objectivity with their data intensive mission-critical applications because we diligently deliver the solutions they need to achieve success." "The architecture of Objectivity/DB is ideally suited to the expanded object cache available with the AMD Opteron, allowing it to be configured as an in-memory database for high throughput persistent object systems," said Doug Barry, founder of Barry & Associates, Inc., a firm that provides consulting in enterprise architecture and standards with a specialization in Web services, service-oriented architectures and object databases.