Hyperion and Sun Prove Enterprise-Class Scalability and Performance fo

Hyperion and Sun Prove Enterprise-Class Scalability and Performance for Business-Critical Reporting

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2005--

Hyperion Performance Suite Delivers Impressive Results on Sun's Solaris Operating System
    Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management software, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), today unveiled the results of a joint performance test, which demonstrated unprecedented reporting performance and sub-second response times of Hyperion Performance Suite running on the Solaris(TM) platform. In the test of complex reports with joins and calculations, Hyperion Performance Suite generated 42.3 pages per second per CPU, or 87.6 million pages per day. In the test of simple tabular reports, Hyperion Performance Suite on Solaris OS generated 121 pages per second per CPU or 250.9 million pages per day.

    Real-World Deployment Scenarios

    In order to accurately reflect performance in typical enterprise-scale deployments, Hyperion and Sun ran Business Intelligence tasks representative of popular real-world needs, including:

--	Mission-critical production reporting -- Business conditions often require that companies generate massive reports, some with complex logic or calculations, during a specified window of time. The test included high-volume production reporting, for simple reports and those with calculations.
--	Viewing and analyzing pre-generated reports online or offline
--	The test noted performance for viewing pre-generated reports, a cost-effective approach to managing swelling user populations.
--	On-demand report generation -- On-demand report generation satisfies the needs of users who need to create custom reports on-the-fly, with the most up-to-date information. The test noted performance in a challenging on-demand environment with complex reports.

    Using these real-world scenarios, the performance test results demonstrated:

    -- Enterprise-class performance with outstanding scalability for
    massive reports such as complex financial statements, clinical
    trial reports, and customer relationship management (CRM)
    application reports

    -- Sub-second response time for viewing summary-to-detail reports
    with charts, pivot tables, and 1,000 rows of data.

    Complete Test Results

    The performance test was completed in August 2004 in the following environment:

-- 24 CPUs:

-- Application tier: four Sun Fire(TM) V480 servers with four 1.2GHz CPUs and 16 GB RAM, and one Sun Fire V880 server with eight 1.2GHz CPUs and 32 GB RAM, running Solaris 9 OS

-- Data tier: one Sun Fire V880 server with eight 1.2GHz CPUs and 32 GB RAM, running Solaris 9 OS

-- Mercury Software's LoadRunner, used to execute test scripts.

-- Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System, used for application and web server. -- Hyperion Performance Suite 8 services on application server.

-- Leading RDBMS used for reporting data and Hyperion Performance Suite repository

    Special Offers

    Both Sun and Hyperion are offering specials to organizations that want to test their Business Intelligence environment for speed and scalability. Interested parties can e-mail BIDW-iForce@sun.com for a complimentary POC at Sun's Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Competency Center.

    About Hyperion

    Hyperion is the global leader in Business Performance Management software. More than 10,000 customers -- including 91 of the Fortune 100 -- rely on Hyperion software to translate strategies into plans, monitor execution and provide insight to improve financial and operational performance. Hyperion combines the most complete set of interoperable applications with the leading Business Intelligence platform to support and create Business Performance Management solutions. A network of more than 600 partners provides the company's innovative and specialized solutions and services.
    Named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For 2004, Hyperion employs approximately 2,500 people in 20 countries. Distributors represent Hyperion in an additional 25 countries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hyperion generated annual revenues of $622 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2004. Hyperion is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL. For more information, please visit www.hyperion.com, www.hyperion.com/contactus or call 800-286-8000 (U.S. only).

    About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

    Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.

    "Hyperion," the Hyperion "H" logo and Hyperion's product names are trademarks of Hyperion. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purpose only.

    Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Sun Fire, Solaris, iForce and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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CONTACT: Hyperion Jennifer Leggio, 408-588-8473 Jennifer_Leggio@hyperion.com or Sun Microsystems, Inc. Terri Molini, 408-404-4976 allpress@sun.com

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