Today, during Microsoft Corp.'s Financial Analyst Meeting, Paul Flessner, senior vice president for the Enterprise Servers Group at Microsoft, reiterated the tremendous gains Microsoft� .NET Enterprise Servers are achieving in the enterprise. At a time when database sales are either flat or decreasing, Microsoft SQL Server� had another great quarter. It has achieved better than 20 percent revenue growth year over year, marking 36 consecutive quarters of growth. During the fourth quarter, ending June 30, 2002, the strongest drivers in SQL Server's growth were the Enterprise Edition and the per-processor licensing common in enterprises. SQL Server, reportedly the fastest-growing database, experienced 17.8 percent growth* in worldwide rational database management systems (RDBMS) new license sales, and is the leading price/performance database on the market.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Windows� 2000 Servers provide an integrated platform that delivers innovation, manageability, scalability and agility to customers today. For these reasons and more, financial companies, including the ones below, turn to Microsoft to provide their data management solutions.