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KUALA LUMPUR, 19 November 2007 - SAS Malaysia, leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions today announces the recent appointment of Jonathan Lee as its Head of Channels & Alliances.

The appointment of Jonathan Lee is in tandem with SAS Malaysia’s onward strategy to cover a wider market and to extend SAS market leadership in Malaysia via Channels and Alliances. So far, SAS Malaysia has principally been operating via a direct sales model.

Jonathan Lee has more than 10 years experience in the IT industry in the area of Marketing and Channels, and has worked in both hardware and software companies including Patimas Group of companies, NEC Malaysia and IBM (ASEAN). He holds a Bachelor of International Business and Trade Relations from an Australian-based university.

Jimmy Cheah, Managing Director of SAS Malaysia, says that Lee’s appointment is a clear indication of SAS Malaysia’s focus moving on for 2008, “SAS has tremendous offerings to all organizations looking to improve performances and competitiveness with better insights of its data, whether enterprises or SMIs, public or private. We look to work with partners who bring about specific vertical industry value which can synergize with our existing and new offerings to the expanding BI market. Via our direct sales force and now complemented by our alliances and channel partners, SAS will have greater reach and expertise to effectively address all sectors of the growing market space.”

SAS Malaysia has been the market leader in BI for the past few years and according to the1H07 IDC AP BI Tracker, SAS holds 31% of the BI market share.

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 November 2007 - Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SAS Malaysia in collaboration for a SAS Business Intelligence Competency Centre (BICC) at the university’s premise.

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I believe that everyone has a role in society. Technocrats, businessmen, leaders and not forgetting the operatives that does the actual implementation. Of course, there’s also the entertainers and sports personalities; whom the younger generation looks up to.

However, some sports require more investment by its participants. Even sports that seemingly require little to no equipment can call for significant resources to separate the successful from the mediocre. For example, body building, a sport where the participants are only dressed in tiny undergarments, often requires quite a bit of investment when it comes to their bodybuilding supplements.

So obviously if somebody so happens to be passionate about an expensive sport, he or she might require assistance in becoming one of the best in that particular sport. Looking at Malaysia’s long history of praising winners in heaps and condemning losers just as much, it makes me wonder how our athletes in some of the less popular sports are doing.

The number of world class Malaysian athletes is way too small and we can probably count them using the fingers on our hands; however, it’s those literal unknowns that I’m more worried about. Are they destined to be amateurs or semi-pros until retirement? Funding must come from somewhere and an athlete couldn’t just depend on government support.

I’m just wondering how does a career sportsperson survive in Malaysia? If you are one, or know somebody who is, could you please enlighten me on this subject? I’m sure other readers would love to know as well.

Probably, a better title would be; Who would Dr Sheikh Muszaphar marry? I’m just playing with the title.

Anyway, news just broke that Malaysia’s first astronaut (or space flight participant, if you’re so inclined to describe him as that) would like to end his bachelorhood sometime before 2009. This leaves him with roughly 13 months of freedom

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KUALA LUMPUR, OCTOBER 30, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its WANJet® Wide Area Network (WAN) appliance is now available on F5’s powerful TMOS™ architecture. Integration with TMOS enables customers to implement high performance WAN optimization and acceleration functionality, and builds on F5’s broader Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solution portfolio. Along with the new 5.0 software release, customers now have a TMOS-enabled WANJet hardware platform, WANJet 300, to address branch office-to-data center optimization needs.

F5 is the only networking vendor that has taken a holistic approach to application acceleration, designing its products to work seamlessly with its entire application delivery infrastructure. Now running on the industry-leading TMOS architecture platform, WANJet inherits the benefits of F5’s iControl® open API with the 5.0 release enabling customers, partners, ISVs, and system integrators to develop unique application delivery solutions. As an additional benefit of this integration, WANJet appliances can be easily managed by Enterprise Manager™, F5’s centralized network device management appliance.

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