Ascential (NASDAQ:ASCL)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2019 to Jun 2024
Ascential Software Announces Support for Sun Microsystems'
Solaris(TM) 10 OS
Combined Solution Designed to Deliver Superior Performance While Minimizing IT
Costs, Complexity and Risk
WESTBORO, Mass., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ascential Software
Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL), an enterprise data integration leader, today
announced that the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite(TM) supports Sun
Microsystems' Solaris(TM) 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.
About Ascential Software
Ascential Software Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCL) is the leader in enterprise data
integration. Customers and partners worldwide use the Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite(TM) to confidently transform data into accurate, reliable and
complete business information to improve operational performance and
decision-making across every critical business dimension. Our comprehensive
end-to-end solutions provide on demand data integration complemented by our
professional services, industry expertise, and methodologies.
Ascential Software is headquartered in Westboro, Mass., and has more than 3,000
customers and partners globally across such industries as financial services
and banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer packaged
goods, telecommunications and government. For more information call
1-800-966-9875 (508-366-3888 if calling from outside the US or Canada) or visit
the Ascential Software website at http://www.ascential.com/.
Media and industry analysts, contact Chas Kielt, director of media and analyst
relations, at 1-508-599-7256 or .
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, and The Network Is The Computer
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995: This release contains forward-looking statements based on current
expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future
events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in
the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release
address a variety of subjects including, for example, the functionality,
characteristics, quality and performance capabilities of Ascential Software's
products and technology; results achievable and benefits attainable through
deployment of Ascential Software's products and provision of services; the
ability of Ascential Software's products to help support heterogeneous
multi-platform computing environments and help deliver a high- performance and
versatile data integration solution; the ability of Ascential Software's
products 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; and improvements in
operational performance and decision-making. The following factors, among
others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in
these forward-looking statements: the ability of the company to expand its
market share; growth rates for the enterprise data integration software market;
general business conditions in the software industry, the technology sector,
and in the domestic and international economies; rapid technological change in
the markets served by the company; dependence on international operations;
global and geopolitical instability; compliance costs associated with
regulations to which the company is subject, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002, and the impact of such regulations; and difficulties that the company
may experience integrating technologies, operations and personnel of completed
or future acquisitions. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary
statements, please refer to the filings made by Ascential Software with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Ascential Software disclaims any intent or
obligation to update any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any
change in Ascential Software's expectations with regard thereto or any change
in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based.
Ascential Software is not responsible for statements attributed to third
parties within this release or in any materials referenced herein.
Partnerships described herein shall be deemed to be strategic alliances only,
and shall not imply the power of either partner to bind the other partner or to
incur obligations on behalf of the other partner.
Ascential and Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite are trademarks of
Ascential Software Corporation or its affiliates and may be registered in the
United States or other jurisdictions. Other marks are the property of the
owners of those marks.
Contact:
Chas Kielt Mary Keith
Ascential Software Corporation Porter Novelli
(508) 599-7256 (617) 897-8281
DATASOURCE: Ascential Software Corporation
CONTACT: Chas Kielt of Ascential Software Corporation, +1-508-599-7256,
; or Mary Keith of Porter Novelli, +1-617-897-8281,
Web site: http://www.ascentialsoftware.com/