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(SUNW) i2 and Sun Expand Technology Alliance to Encompass Transportation Solutions

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 06:00 CDT

DALLAS & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003--

i2 Transportation and Distribution Management Solution Able to

Process More Than 1.4M Transactions Per Day in Controlled Testing

Environment on Solaris OS Servers

i2 Technologies, Inc. (OTC:ITWO) and Sun Microsystems today announced the expansion of their global technology alliance with the availability of i2's Transportation and Distribution Management (TDM) solutions on the Solaris(TM) operating system (OS). Named by Gartner Dataquest as the UNIX OS server leader in marketshare units and revenue, Sun's Solaris OS is a preferred UNIX-based OS for i2 TDM solutions which encompass transportation planning, (i.e. transportation manager) and transportation optimizer.

Availability of i2's TDM solutions on Solaris helps provide increased customer service levels, improved asset utilization and reduced operating costs, according to early testing results from a controlled environment study at i2's Markham, Canada testing facility. Those results showed TDM solutions running on Solaris achieved complete shipment execution processing of over 1.4 million transactions in a 24-hour period.

"With the launch of i2 Six, we made certain revisions to offer our customers a wider depth and breadth of options when it comes to the solutions and systems they select. The latest version of i2 Transportation and Distribution Management has been tuned for UNIX, on Sun's Solaris OS. As a result, several individual i2 transportation solutions can be integrated into a single workflow, and customers are able to run both the database and the application servers simultaneously," said Pallab Chatterjee, i2 president, Solutions Operations. "Working with a world-class partner like Sun is a very important element of our business -- and our customer's business -- today and in the future."

Transportation and distribution management solutions can help companies efficiently procure, plan, execute and monitor freight movements across modes, borders and enterprises. These solutions are designed to create sustainable value by synchronizing all critical transportation and distribution business processes resulting in optimal cost and service performance.

"Since the inception of this partnership, it has been our goal to expand our role as a better business partner, and deliver scalable solutions to market in a way that best suits the needs of our customers," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president, market development, Sun Microsystems. "Likewise, expanding our relationship and wrapping the benefits of the Solaris OS around i2's comprehensive line of transportation solutions, enables Sun to deliver the security and reliability of Solaris into new market segments."

Today's announcement follows on the heels of a joint initiative established between Sun and i2 to capture the growing market opportunity for highly reliable, scalable and secure service and parts management solutions. Customers interested in any of i2's best in class solutions, running on any combination of Sun software and hardware, can "test before they invest" by building proof-of-concepts -- at no charge -- at any of Sun's iForce(SM) Solution Centers or Certified Solution Centers, located around the world.

About i2 Technologies, Inc.

A leading provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, i2 designs and delivers software that helps customers optimize and synchronize activities involved in successfully managing supply and demand. More than 1,000 of the world's leading companies, including seven of the Fortune global top 10, have selected i2 to help solve their most critical supply chain challenges. Founded in 1988 with a commitment to customer success, i2 remains focused on delivering value by implementing solutions designed to provide a rapid return on investment. Learn more at www.i2.com.

i2 Cautionary Language

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties regarding i2's joint offering of products and the resulting functionality of those products, and other risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected. It also may contain forward-looking statements regarding a customer's ability to implement or integrate i2 solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected. For a discussion of other factors which could impact i2's financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC (for the purposes of reviewing risk factors only), particularly the Form 10-K filed April 1, 2002 and Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002. i2 assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- 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.

According to the 1Q03 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest released earlier this month, Sun is the worldwide leader in Linux+UNIX server revenue and unit shipments in the first quarter of CY2003, In the UNIX+Linux market, Sun leads this market with a 24.2% marketshare in units and 29.5% marketshare in revenues. Sun increased its Linux+UNIX revenue marketshare on a quarterly sequential basis, while its two nearest competitors lost marketshare.

i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. and i2 Technologies US, Inc.

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