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Ipedo Chosen by Sun to Enhance Sun Preventive Services

Ipedo Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Platform Will Enable Real-Time Analysis of System Statistics to Lower Risk and Reduce Operating Costs

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 18, 2005 – Ipedo, a leading provider of enterprise information integration software, today announced that Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), has selected Ipedo XIP as a key technology component for its enhanced Sun Preventive Services offering. Ipedo technology will enable Sun to provide recommendations to customers and Sun's support team about relevant risks to their systems. Sun Preventive Services enables Sun customers to significantly improve system uptime and availability and reduce incident volume and cost.

"Ipedo provides a key technology that lets us deliver risk analysis as a service," said Mark Schietinger, Director of Sun Availability Services. "Their ability to integrate large and complex volumes of disparate data in near-real time allows us to leverage Sun technologies to automate business processes and lower risk, resulting in reduced operating costs for our customers."

Sun will use Ipedo XIP to query system configurations and a rules engine to determine the proper service and diagnostics required for individual systems. Ipedo's unique Dual-Core query engine allows Sun to use a flexible data model combining XML messages, Web Services, databases and other information sources. By putting all this information in a single application, Ipedo enables the complex analysis and results reporting required by Sun Preventive Services

"We are very pleased to be working with Sun on this visionary IT services business model," said Nick Zhang, CEO of Ipedo. "There was a great synergy between Ipedo's flexible data integration capabilities and Sun's complex information processing needs."

Ipedo XIP leverages SQL and XQuery to integrate and manage information from disparate, complex data sources to enable real-time business decisions. Ipedo's novel approach treats existing corporate databases and external data flows as a single, virtual data source. This allows users to gain customized access to the information they need, in a context that makes sense, all while leveraging existing IT investments.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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

About Ipedo
Ipedo delivers innovative enterprise information integration software that provides on-demand intelligence to users. The award-winning Ipedo XIP combines powerful SQL and XML query processing, enabling organizations to fuse together information from any database, content source or Web Service. Customers in financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing, and high technology organizations rely on its patented Dual-Core Query Architecture™ to power a range of business critical applications. Ipedo is available on the Web at www.ipedo.com.