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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/

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