CoSORT Announces v7 Support for Linux

Melbourne, FL -- September 24, 1999 -- Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSORT Company) today announced the availability of its flagship CoSORT 7 release for Linux and Solaris 2.7, for both SPARC and Intel platforms. CoSORT enables developers and end-users on these platforms to fully exploit inherent parallel processing, large file I/O, and internet-related data webhousing capabilities. These ports were done subsequent to CoSORT 7's primary support for: AIX 4.1.4-4.3.3, HP-UX 9.04-11.0, Solaris 2.5-2.6, Digital Unix/Compaq Tru64 Unix 4.0, Data General 5.4, Windows NT 4.0, NCR MP-RAS 3, Reliant Unix (Sinix) 5.4, SCO Unix 5, UnixWare 2-7, and Windows 95/98.

"As the world's first commercial sort developer for Unix, IRI continues its tradition of leading-edge platform support," observed IRI Business Development VP David Friedland. "CoSORT 7 creates sort-related development opportunities for Linux application programmers and fully scalable sort and join performance for Solaris database loads and data warehouse staging, respectively."

CoSORT 7 is fully interoperable across all Unix and NT platforms, with utility script and API interfaces cross-executable, and even remotely launchable via a unique JAVA GUI. The CoSORT coroutine engine provides the world's fastest parallel and multithreaded sort performance on SMP Unix and Windows NT server platforms. CoSORT is used by mainframe COBOL and sort users migrating to open systems, as well as database administrators and data warehouse architects requiring pre-load join, select, convert, aggregate, sort, merge, de-dup, and reformat functionality. CoSORT 7 also provides drop-in replacements for the Solaris and Linux (Unix) sort, NT sort, Micro Focus COBOL and other third party sorts and its sort control language features parm conversion tools for processing COBOL, CSV, web log (CLF/ELF) and JCL metadata or sort parms.

CoSORT is licensed once for perpetual use at hardware-based price points. On-line documentation systems and worldwide technical support are included. For more information on The CoSORT Company and its data management solutions, visit www.cosort.com or call 1-800-333-SORT.

### Press Contact: Russell T. Stuart, 321-952-9400, ext. 241, or rstuart@iri.com