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ECW Compression SDK released for Solaris

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Earth Resource Mapping announced it's support for Sun Microsystems SPARC platform by developing a Solaris 8 version of its ECW Software Development Kit (SDK). The simple to use ECW SDK allows developers to add decompression of ECW images to their Solaris applications.

This SDK release enhances ECW's position as the de-facto standard for geo-spatial image compression and distribution, with support now available in over 50 applications on the three most popular platforms in use within the industry (Solaris, Windows and Macintosh).

ECW provides up to 100:1 multi-band compression at speeds up to 50% faster than its closest competitor. The ECW format also provides viewing that is 300% faster than any other wavelet-based compression format, thus adding the ability to efficiently deal with gigabyte sized image files.

Simon Cope, CTO Internet Technologies said, 'This enables a new level of enterprise applications to take advantage of our market leading geo-spatial compression technologies'. The free ECW SDK's and plug-ins can be downloaded from www.ermapper.com.

About Earth Resource Mapping

Earth Resource Mapping is the world's leading image handling and integrated mapping software company. Clients in more than 120 countries use ER Mapper to prepare imagery, ECW to compress and use imagery, and the Image Web Server to serve imagery over the Internet.

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 power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at .

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