Sun leaps to the top 10 list in Business Intelligence industry

Sun Microsystems gains tremendous ground in the business intelligence market,
ranking as one of the top ten vendors in the DM Review 100. With over 500
enterprise implementations worldwide based on Sun’s Business Intelligence Data
Warehousing (BIDW) offerings, Sun broadens and increases its foray in this $6.4B
market space, moving up from number 45 in 2001 to the number eight position in
2002.

"Sun’s rank as part of the top ten BIDW leaders is a result of the
many companies who widely choose Sun’s spectrum of programs, partners and
products," said Jean Schauer, Editor in Chief of DM Review. "We
congratulate Sun on the great momentum they’ve had with DM Review readers and
companies that design and develop business intelligence, data warehousing,
analytic and CRM applications."

The 2002 DM Review 100 is an annual readership survey that consists of
companies identified by the readers of DM Review.

It consists of the 100 vendors that received the highest total score based on
three equally weighted metrics: product quality, market share and customer
satisfaction. Based on the results of this year’s survey, conducted by The
Gantry Group, LLC, DM Review presents these industry-leading companies.

"These rankings illustrate that our BIDW offerings are gaining
tremendous market momentum, including jointly developed solutions with
partners," said Ravi Pendekanti, director of solutions marketing at Sun.
"Our customers are leveraging our ‘open’ approach in the development of
best-in-class BIDW solutions. In addition, we are working with more than 50
percent of the top 20 vendors in the DM Review 100."

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