Penton Media Inc.'s Windows & .NET Magazine LIVE! and SQL Server Magazine LIVE! Name ProClarity Corporation and Unisys Technical Excellence Award Winners

Business Wire, May 22, 2002

Business Editors & High-Tech Writers

LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002

Penton Media Inc. (NYSE: PME) announced today that ProClarity Corporation and Unisys both won Technical Excellence Awards at the Windows & .NET Magazine LIVE! and SQL Server Magazine LIVE! event in Palm Springs, CA.

"ProClarity Corporation's Analytics Platform 4.0 provides a direct strategic benefit to the enterprise by enhancing SQL Server's analysis services through a reporting capability that increases understanding and awareness of internal business practices. Analytics Platform 4.0 provides the ability to scale up throughout the enterprise and is flexible enough to be used by everyone from a power user to the occasional administrator," said Michael Otey, senior technical editor, SQL Server Magazine.

"Unisys' ES7000 is unique in that it is the hardware platform with the highest degree of scale-up ability in the Intel world. The ES7000 allows scaling up to 32 processors while the nearest competitor scales to eight processors," said Michael Otey, senior technical editor, Windows & .NET Magazine. "It is the only platform that can work with Datacenter and it allows servers to be partitioned to work with multiple operating systems."

"All the products we reviewed were excellent in their field making it very difficult to choose the winners. The final winners were chosen based on the product's strategic importance to the market, the competitive advantages and the competitive features versus other products in the market," said Otey.

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