Smart Communications Mines Customer Data in Record Time with Sun and Greenplum.

The Philippines' Leading Wireless Service Provider Deploys Data Warehouse Appliance Powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), the creator of Solaris[TM], and Greenplum announced today that Smart Communications Inc. (SMART), the Philippines' leading wireless service provider, has selected the data warehouse appliance solution offered by the two companies based on its demonstrated superior performance. The Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, powered by Sun and Greenplum, is built on open source software--the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (OS) and PostgreSQL--and delivers two orders of magnitude better price-performance over competitive products.

"We are constantly looking for ways to better understand our customers so that we can support our subscribers' varying needs, and roll-out new and compelling services," said Mr. Alexander G. Seminiano, department head Convergent Platforms Group, Smart Communications. "The sheer amount of data involved in supporting more than 22 million subscribers generating an average of 700 million text messages per day has always been the key challenge in obtaining deeper insight. The Data Warehouse Appliance by Sun and Greenplum should provide unprecedented performance and scale, enabling us to better understand our customers and their needs."

This breakthrough solution combines the Sun Fire[TM] X4500 data server powered by Dual-Core AMD Opteron[TM] processors with Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Greenplum Database, in a single turnkey appliance capable of analyzing hundreds of terabytes of business data at a better price-performance than virtually any product on the market. The system is powered by the Solaris 10 OS, taking full advantage of Solaris ZFS, the world's most advanced file system. Solaris ZFS offers a dramatic advance in file management with an innovative approach to data integrity, tremendous ease of administration and a welcome integration of file system and volume management capabilities.

"Smart's adoption of the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance enables a new level of high-speed-business intelligence," said Lionel Lim, president, Asia South, Sun Microsystems. "We are proud that our Sun Fire X4500 is the hardware backbone of this solution. Smart can now generate data on the fly to make well-informed business decisions in a fast and scalable IT environment that offers investment protection."

"Leveraging the massive amounts of information that wireless carriers generate has been the holy grail to delivering the next generation of compelling value-added services," said Scott Yara, president and co-founder, Greenplum. "Smart has once again confirmed their reputation as the leading pioneer in the wireless industry, by leveraging disruptive technology such as Sun and Greenplum's Data Warehouse Appliance to further improve the customer experience."

The Data Warehouse Appliance is available in initial configurations that deliver usable database capacities of 10, 40 and 100TB, with price-points less than $20K per terabyte. Ideal industries for this solution include telecommunications, financial services, retail, and Internet services. For more information go to http://www.sun.com/solutions/landing/infrastructure/dwa/index.jsp.

About Sun Microsystems

A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com or the Asia South website at http://sun.com.sg.

About Greenplum

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Greenplum develops the world's leading commercial open-source database for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Built on PostgreSQL, Greenplum's breakthrough database products enables companies to analyze terabytes of information faster and more cost effectively than traditional data warehouse solutions. The company sponsors The Bizgres Project (www.bizgres.org), a community effort designed to make PostgreSQL the most robust open source database for data warehousing and BI. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com. To download Greenplum software, visit http://bgn.greenplum.com.

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