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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (20612)	10/4/1999 11:45:00 PM
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"I think; therefore I am" - Descartes Sun and Descartes Team Up to Deploy E-Business Solutions ATLANTA, Oct. 4 /PRNewswireThe Descartes Systems Group Inc. (Nasdaq: DSGX - news; TSE: DSG - news), a leading provider of e-business solutions, today announced its intent to work with Sun Microsystems, Inc. a leader in enterprise computing, to further develop and market Descartes' e-business solutions for high-performance customer fulfillment networks, also know as DeliveryNets. Descartes' DeliveryNet solutions are industry-specific application portfolios designed to help enterprises create and operate high-performance fulfillment networks. These solutions combine event-based data collection with real-time supply chain monitoring and control, enabling dynamic optimization of fulfillment activities across trading partner communities. DeliveryNet solutions are based on Descartes' e-Frame, an Internet-based, inter-enterprise technology architecture that enables the creation and operation of e-business communities. These solutions can be deployed on a stand-alone basis or on Descartes' Internet-based hosted application service. Descartes DeliveryNet takes advantage of the robustness and scalability of Sun Solaris Operating Environment and extends supply chain visibility through the use of powerful Java technology-based applets. With Sun's server architecture,Descartes can deliver complex applications with broad bandwidth and support thousands of users with reliability,availability and serviceability. Sun is using Descartes' e-Frame platforms and Global Visibility Manager to create its own DeliveryNet connecting its global manufacturing and assembly operations with its logistics service providers. Working with other Sun developers,Descartes has extended its Global Visibility Manager with new Java technology-based applets, which are being used by Sun's logistics community to give them global inventory visibility and exception-based event notification of the movement of goods, services and information across its fulfillment network. DeliveryNet has had documented successes at companies like Ericsson, winner of the Alliance for Converging Technologies Award for Excellence in Customer Fulfillment, presented by Alliance chairman and noted author Don Tapscott. Sun and Descartes will being promoting DeliveryNet solutions immediately. Descartes announced the successful deployment of the Descartes DeliveryNet.DSD solution's Sales and Delivery Management System 6 (SDMS6), which has been successfully installed and running at Buffalo Rock, the nation's largest independent Pepsi Bottler. Descartes' SDMS6 is based on Sun's Forte application development environment. SDMS6 enables direct store delivery operations to plan, execute, control and monitor every step of their order-to-delivery cycle.Descartes will offer DeliveryNet.DSD to the consumer packaged goods and DSD market exclusively on Sun platforms. ``As an application developer and ASP building DeliveryNets for numerous trading partner communities, we require highly reliable, scalable distributed technology that can handle millions of interactions across thousands of trading partners on a real-time basis,' said Peter Schwartz, chief executive officer of Descartes. ``Sun computing and application development platforms have proven to be the perfect choice for Descartes.' ``Descartes' DeliveryNet solutions and e-Frame architecture represent innovative e-business solutions for organizations like ourselves that wish to operate high-performance trading communities,' said Jeffrey Greenwald, director of ERP and Supply Chain Markets, Market Development for Sun. ``Descartes has a demonstrated track record of meeting the needs of over 850 customers in 50 countries deploying realtime command-and-control systems which optimize customer fulfillment networks.' About Descartes Descartes develops e-business solutions for customer fulfillment networks. Descartes industry-specific, prepackaged solution portfolios and its componentized applications enable companies to create high-performance customer fulfillment networks called DeliveryNets. These solutions empower organizations to deliver reliable, responsive customer service in a profitable manner and to create innovative new products and services. Descartes products are used today by more than 850 companies in 35 vertical industries and 50 countries worldwide. For more information about Descartes, visit descartes.com . About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, ``The Network Is The Computer,' has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com . NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, and ``The Network Is The Computer' are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.