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Egenera Inc., a leader in utility computing, today announced the addition of Algorithmics Incorporated to the Egenera Accelerate alliance program. In addition, Sybase has expanded its role in the Accelerate program and joins Algorithmics in achieving Egenera's Assured Solution Alliances designation, which validates applications for the Egenera BladeFrame environment. By continuing to forge relationships with leading technology providers, Egenera is helping to ensure that its customers derive enhanced value from an Egenera BladeFrame system deployment. "Egenera is focused on delivering a computing infrastructure that sets a new benchmark for lowering total cost of ownership while simultaneously improving the performance, availability and manageability of mission-critical applications. Our business alliances play a vital role in our ability to deliver on this goal," said Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. "Algorithmics and Sybase are widely recognized as premier technology providers. Together, we are enhancing the value our respective solutions bring to joint customers." Algorithmics Incorporated In response to customers' needs for improved application performance, scalable hardware solutions, mission-critical reliability and, most importantly, a reduction in total hardware costs, Algorithmics offers a grid computing version of its enterprise risk management software called Algo Suite which uses a patented framework to leverage the power of Linux grids. The grid computing solution on Linux makes it possible for risk simulations to be spread across multiple CPUs that are either dedicated to running the simulations or non-dedicated machines contributing excess capacity. The Linux version of Algo Suite scales easily and allows clients to add computing resources without further implementation or configuration work, thereby reducing total cost of ownership. "Linux is rapidly being recognized as a platform for production systems in the financial-services industry," said Michael Zerbs, chief executive officer at Algorithmics. "The Linux version of Algo Suite is a scalable solution that delivers impressive application performance, mission-critical reliability and a reduction in total hardware costs. We believe that Algo Suite running on the Egenera BladeFrame system offers enterprise datacenters better performance than they could achieve with a proprietary UNIX system." Sybase Sybase Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, introduces a high-performance, low-cost computing platform for datacenters. Working together, Sybase and Egenera have enhanced both transactional and analytical processing engines for the Linux operating environment. Sybase(R) IQ, a highly scalable analytic database engine, now joins Sybase's suite of data-management products--Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise (ASE), Sybase Replication Server(R) and Sybase Open Server(R)--as Egenera-certified products. "Transactional and analytical applications are among the most mission-critical services supported by an enterprise-class datacenter," said Herman Li, vice president of engineering, Information Technology and Solutions Group, Sybase. "The combination of low-cost operating environments such as Linux with the high-performance Egenera platform, and highly scalable, enterprise-class data-management solutions from Sybase, offers joint customers a unique and cost-effective solution to manage rapidly growing datacenters." Background Information Algorithmics is a leader in enterprise risk management for financial institutions. Now in its fifteenth year, Algorithmics serves more than 150 global clients in 31 countries with solutions that continue to meet the evolving needs of its clients and deliver significant return on investment. Algo Suite 4.4, the latest version of Algorithmics' suite of risk management solutions, leverages Mark-to-Future technology to provide a proven risk architecture that delivers cost-effective, on-time enterprise risk management. Algorithmics is headquartered in Toronto and has 15 offices worldwide. Celebrating 20 years of innovation, Sybase enables the Unwired Enterprise for customers and partners by delivering enterprise and mobile software solutions for information management, development and integration. Some of the world's most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com. Egenera designs, markets and supports an enterprise-class datacenter computing platform, the Egenera BladeFrame system, which enables our customers to implement utility computing. This model, which we believe represents the next major transformation of the datacenter environment, enables users to dynamically allocate resources to applications on an as-needed basis. Today, BladeFrame platforms are installed at customers worldwide, including America Online, Cambridge Health Alliance, Credit Suisse First Boston, Emory Healthcare, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, MChex, SAVVIS Communications, UFJ Group and others. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in or around Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.