"Since making RMDS 6.0 available on Solaris 10 in April 2006, Sun has received strong interest from our financial services customer base due to the continual rise of market data and transactional throughput," said James Powell, vice president of financial services, Sun Microsystems. "Our customers are looking for a highly reliable, scalable platform with latency moving closer to zero. RMDS 6.0 running on Sun Solaris 10 is one of the best solutions on the market to give firms the robust solution they need in addressing increasing demands on market data systems."

Exhibited in a recent demonstration completed last month by Sun using the Reuters tools and test package, Sun's RMDS 5.0 customers can potentially benefit from a 300 percent greater throughput and sub-millisecond latency improvement with Solaris 10 on RMDS 6.0. Sun has exceeded the one million market data updates per second benchmark on Reuters RMDS 6.0. Sun continues to work together with Reuters to further reduce latency and optimize throughput of RMDS 6.0 on the Solaris platform.

"We're pleased to continue offering our customers better choices," said Michael Parlapiano, executive vice president of Enterprise Information Management Solutions, Reuters. "Companies utilizing RMDS 6.0 are ensured lower latency, overall greater scalability and dramatically improved performance with the Solaris 10 OS as their operating system choice.."

"If you look at any comparably dramatic market structure change -- decimalization or Reg ATS for example -- the implications are clear: a significant increase in market data," said Jeromee Johnson, senior analyst at Tabb Group. "We're expecting, at an absolute minimum, a doubling of market data traffic and it's likely the increases will be even higher. This will stress all levels of the infrastructure, from distribution mechanisms and network bandwidth, all the way out to the desktops. Technology that addresses these issues is critical for the financial services industry to consider."

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