Sun Microsystems Announces Completion of MySQL Acquisition; Paves Way for Secure, Open Source Platform to Power the Network Economy

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has completed the acquisition of MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. Sun also unveiled the immediate availability of MySQL's complete portfolio of products and enterprise services backed by its 17,000-strong global sales and services organization and its extensive international network of authorized distribution channels. Sun now provides a single, secure choice for customers and developers seeking to put MySQL into deployment on a global basis. Users can get started today with free downloads at www.sun.com/mysql/download.


"Since announcing our Sun-MySQL relationship, we've received an overwhelming response and embrace from customers and community members excited to see MySQL's tremendous innovation and community backed by Sun's financial muscle and global partners," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief executive officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "For the first time ever, businesses across the world can standardize on a commercially supported, open source platform that meets their needs for scale, quality and global service."

Around the Clock Enterprise Support and Services

Today Sun introduced immediate availability of 7X24 year round global, enterprise-class database subscriptions and services for the entire MySQL product line, enabling IT organizations worldwide to take advantage of the leading open database for the Network Economy. With broad multi-platform support - including Solaris, Linux and Windows - enterprise customers will face less risk and have greater flexibility and choice to achieve unlimited scale and enable MySQL deployments in mission critical applications. Customers can sign-up for MySQL Enterprise trial subscriptions at no cost at www.sun.com/mysql/trial. Sun is also offering MySQL Enterprise Unlimited, which helps customers deploy and manage an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise Servers at a flat annual fee. To learn more, go to www.sun.com/mysql/unlimited. Current users of MySQL can also learn more about Sun's extensive services capabilities at http://www.sun.com/service.

Sun's new MySQL database is a key component in popular software stacks for building Web 2.0 applications. Its deployment with the Solaris OS, OpenSolaris project and highly complementary systems from Sun delivers powerful end-to-end platforms for customers of all scale, from individual developers to the largest global enterprises. And MySQL continues its commitments to its strategic partnerships with popular platform vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and Zend. The acquisition cements Sun's entrance into the $15 billion database market, affirms Sun's leadership in open source software and positions the company as the leading provider of enterprise platforms for the Network Economy.

"As a developer of open source web applications and services that relies heavily on both Sun and MySQL, we believe that the combined companies will better address our IT needs today, tomorrow and beyond," said Joshua Rand, CEO, Sapotek, Inc. "We're confident that the MySQL acquisition will reinforce Sun's commitment to providing hardware, software and services that will save us money in having one integrated, end-to-end platform. The combination of MySQL and Sun provides the community with unlimited possibilities, ensuring the highest level of quality assurance and advanced feature contributions to the world's leading open source initiatives."

More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance, open source database software have been downloaded and distributed in its history and since the announcement of Sun's intent to acquire MySQL, daily downloads have increased from 50,000 to more than 60,000 per day. This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise IT, telecom and the embedded OEM market, make it a significant addition for Sun. For more information on Sun's acquisition of MySQL AB, go to http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0116/index.jsp.



Catch the Sun-MySQL World Tour and Community Town Hall

To toast the success of the acquisition and engage with customers, employees, community developers and partners, Sun and MySQL executives will kick-off a global tour in March, hitting major cities worldwide leading up to the popular MySQL Conference & Expo in April. Every Sun-MySQL community can participate online, including videos, photos and comments from each stop at www.sun.com/mysqltour. This site will invite the public to visit the tour in a nearby city to meet Sun-MySQL executives, local developers and other open source enthusiasts. Details for an online tour stop will also be available; a Community Town Hall event is slated for March 4, 2008, and will be hosted by Jonathan Schwartz, Rich Green, executive vice president of Sun Software, and Marten Mickos, senior vice president of Sun's newly formed Database Group within Sun's Software division, among others.

MySQL Conference & Expo - April 14-17

Co-presented by Sun and O'Reilly Media, the annual MySQL Conference & Expo will take place April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to bring together over 1,600 open source and database users from some of the most exciting and fastest-growing companies in the world, as well as the large and active MySQL Community. The program for 2008 will include keynote presentations by Jonathan Schwartz, Marten Mickos, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, and Jacek Becla of the Stanford Linear Accelerator program. For more information, go to http://www.mysqlconf.com.

About Sun's MySQL Portfolio

MySQL is a business unit within Sun's Software organization and is the world's most popular open source database software. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube and Zappos.com. At http://www.sun.com/mysql, Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.



About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Dell and Sun Microsystems Announce Solaris 10 Distribution Agreement

Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.


The multi-year distribution agreement was announced live from Oracle OpenWorld, where Sun President and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and Dell Chairman and CEO, Michael Dell, are keynote speakers. With this announcement, Dell is expanding the range of enterprise-class operating systems it offers to its customers and Sun is expanding the reach of its Solaris OS.

As part of the relationship, Dell and Sun will cooperate on system certification and the development of offerings based on Solaris and Dell solutions. In addition, Dell and Sun have agreed to work together to secure support from key ISVs for Solaris on Dell PowerEdge servers. Both companies will work to ensure the combination of Dell PowerEdge servers and the Solaris OS delivers customer choice and value for applications that demand reliability, security, scalability, performance and integrated virtualization.

"Dell's offering of Solaris redefines the market opportunity for both companies," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun Microsystems. "The relationship gives Dell broader reach into the global free software community with Solaris and OpenSolaris and gives Sun access to channels and customers across the volume marketplace."

"Part of our focus to simplify IT means delivering customers choice and by adding Solaris to our solutions set we are able to do that," said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell.

For more details on the agreement, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/dell or http://www.sun.com/news.

Sun Teams With Oracle To Deliver Pre-Configured Data Warehouses

Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced the availability of the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun. The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is a complete, out-of-the-box, high-performance data warehouse solution built upon the world's leading database and Sun's leading hardware and operating systems.


The solution, which will be sold by Sun, consists of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning on a Sun Fire E20K server, the Sun open source Solaris operating system (OS) and Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays. With all hardware and software components pre-installed, configured, optimized, and ready to run, the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is the fastest, simplest and lowest-risk way to buy and implement a data warehouse on Oracle and Sun technology.

The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun announced today is sized for data warehouses containing 10TB of raw data. Future validated Oracle Optimized Warehouse configurations are planned to provide larger solutions through the use of modular building blocks. This packaging delivers simplicity and speed of implementation along with the flexibility and power of the world's leading database platform. Oracle's advanced analytic and management capabilities combined with the power and reliability of Sun hardware make the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun a compelling offering.

"The appeal of this pre-configured solution is simple: customers can have a fully functioning, optimized, scalable data warehouse up and running very quickly," said Juan Carlos Soto. "And when that pre-configured solution includes Oracle Database and Sun's open source Solaris operating system, customers know they are getting a reliable, secure, powerhouse computing environment."

"With the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun, it is easier than ever to purchase a world-class data warehouse platform," said Ray Roccaforte, vice president of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Platform, Oracle. "Sun and Oracle's joint engineering efforts in testing and optimizing this data warehouse will help reduce costs and implementation times for our customers, while delivering a solution capable of the most demanding workloads and the most complex business analytics."

Based upon years of combined Sun and Oracle engineering expertise in large-scale data warehouses, the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun delivers the ideal database, server, and storage configuration to match customers' business analytic requirements and enables decreased data warehouse implementation time without limiting future growth and analytic agility. Learn more about the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun at: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/sun.html

Product Availability

The Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is generally available from Sun today. For additional information on the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun, go to: http://www.sun.com/oracle. More details on the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative is available at: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/optimized-warehouse-initiative.html.

SUNW: Deloitte & Touche LLP, Sun Microsystems Unveil New Identity and Access Management Offering

Deloitte & Touche LLP and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced a new Enterprise Role Lifecycle Management (ERLM) offering that enables organizations to simplify compliance management, reporting, and user administration of identity and access management (IAM) deployments.


Among the first truly integrated enterprise role lifecycle management offerings, ERLM combines Deloitte & Touche's Role Management for Enterprises (RM4E) service delivery methodology, Sun's Java System Identity Manager, and Vaau, Inc.'s RBACx role mining, role lifecycle management and role reporting capabilities.

ERLM facilitates the lifecycle processes related to enterprise roles, including the definition, management and use of roles. As a result, enterprise roles can be used to represent the "role" or "job function" of users, which can then serve as the basis for establishing the access rights appropriate for applications and systems within an organization's IT environment. ERLM can assist organizations in simplifying compliance management, reporting and user administration by establishing processes that quickly respond to changes and efficiently address compliance requirements.

"As a recognized global leader in identity management with billions of user identities worldwide managed by Sun, we understand that as organizations expand, they begin facing enormous pressures to better manage costs of both demonstrating compliance and efficiently governing access to information and systems," said Jim McHugh, vice president, software infrastructure marketing, Sun Microsystems. "Sun's strong relationship with Deloitte & Touche and the new ERLM offering show our commitment to helping customers meet their critical security and compliance needs."

The new ERLM offering is the result of a series of strategic investments by Deloitte & Touche in its Identity and Access Management Center of Excellence. As a result of these investments, Deloitte & Touche recently released the latest version of its Identity and Access Management methodology (IAMethods) and Role Management for Enterprises (RM4E) delivery approach. The expanded Deloitte & Touche IAM Center of Excellence includes a team of professionals dedicated to the Sun relationship, focusing on activities such as the development of specific enhancements to its proprietary IAMethods, which can be used to accelerate client implementations.

"Our collaborative efforts with Sun, strong industry focus and ability to deliver unique services around Sun technologies produce a successful, repeatable and customer-focused enterprise-wide delivery approach that addresses essential business issues," said Rick Siebenaler, principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "The combination of IAMethods, deep business process knowledge and technical understanding of Sun IAM solutions can help organizations simplify compliance processes and reduce administration costs, all based on an optimal set of business-oriented user roles within an organization."

Building upon Deloitte & Touche's IAM implementation methodology and insights obtained from more than a decade of experience in IAM implementations, IAMethods addresses the various elements of an IAM-related initiative including web access management, user provisioning, strong authentication, and federation, for example, while providing a set of integrated processes, blueprints and tools to help reduce deployment risks and costs. RM4E is one of the approaches supported by IAMethods, providing a business-driven approach to implementing role-based access control (RBAC) and helping organizations support their compliance programs.

Deloitte & Touche and Sun will demonstrate the ERLM solution during the Gartner Identity & Access Management Conference in London, June 25-26, http://www.gartner.com, and at the Sun hospitality suite at the Burton Catalyst Conference in San Francisco, Calif., June 28, http://catalyst.burtongroup.com

For more information about the ERLM offering please visit:

Sun at: http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity/partners/consulting_partners.jsp
Deloitte at: http://www.deloitte.com/us/sun

About Deloitte

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other's acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names "Deloitte", "Deloitte & Touche", "Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu" or other related names. Services are provided by the member firms or their subsidiaries or affiliates and not by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein.

Sun Introduces New Offering To Simplify IT Inventory Management

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the immediate availability of the Sun Connection Inventory Channel, a new, free offering for Sun customers that allows system administrators and IT operators to quickly and easily discover, organize and report on their IT assets. The first inventory management solution to deliver one-click discovery across systems running the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Linux, Sun Connection Inventory Channel enables customers to actively manage their IT assets and gain valuable insight into their IT operations by tracking critical information including product type, product version, licensing and registration status and support contract ID number.


"Sun is continuing to expand its offerings to help customers more efficiently manage their data centers," said Steve Wilson, vice president of Connected Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The Sun Connection Inventory Channel provides a simple, powerful way for customers to track, sort, search and group their IT assets and support contracts. Ultimately, by automating the process, customers are able to easily understand their assets and make better informed IT decisions for the future."

Many IT administrators have complex management mechanisms in place to benchmark the health and performance of their IT operations, but often do not have a single view of what software, systems and storage they have and where these assets are running. While some solutions offer partial automation, keeping track of inventory, managing new additions and tracking removals is difficult, error prone and often requires manual processing.

Sun Connection Inventory Channel provides a unified view of hardware and software assets via a dynamic Web-based user interface. Customers can quickly search through thousands of assets based on a combination of search criteria including host name, product type, product version, support contract ID number and custom, user-defined asset tags.

The Sun Connection Inventory Channel complements the existing Sun Connection Update and Provisioning Channels by providing a lightweight and cost-effective asset management solution on a heterogeneous platform. The Sun Connection Update Channel provides central patch management capabilities on multiple operating platforms. The Provisioning Channel allows customers to perform provisioning tasks such as copy and paste of existing system deployments to new systems running the Solaris OS, Red Hat or SUSE Linux. For more information about Sun Connection, please visit: http://www.sun.com/sunconnection

The Sun Connection Inventory Channel is available free to all customers, whether an enterprise has purchased a high-end UltraSPARC-based server or a start-up has downloaded the Solaris OS for free. Access to the new channel is available at: http://sunconnection.sun.com/inventory

Sun Microsystems Launches Unique Data Management Appliance for Communication Service Providers

Sun Microsystems (NASDQ: SUNW) today launched the Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS)to help communications service providers address the EU Data Retention Directive requirements with a powerful, secure and flexible end-to-end solution.


Sun SDRS is designed as the industry's first end-to-end "plug-and-comply" appliance solution. Powered by CopperEye's revolutionary "Live Archive" technology, SDRS addresses not only the secure retention and life cycle of communications data but also the business processes by which this data is rapidly retrieved and securely disclosed, as defined in the EU directive.

With the new EU requirements for capturing and storing large volumes of compliance data such as call detail records and IP traffic, the requirement for fast secure retrieval of selected records makes traditional approaches of utilising a relational database or data warehouse too complex and too costly. Unlike traditional technology alternatives, Sun's unique approach gives communication providers a complete, open standards-based solution secured through Sun's Solaris Operating System and the Sun Secure Global Desktop Software. Furthermore, the system can be deployed in a matter of weeks, rather than months required for other solutions, helping companies meet tight deployment deadlines without diverting IT staff from revenue-generating business projects.

"Due to the appliance approach adopted by Sun and CopperEye and its price / performance we have been able to implement a fully resilient solution, co-located at two geographically separated data centres, along with a significantly expanded storage capacity. This would not have been economical with alternative approaches," said Gareth Niblett, Head of Information Security, Kingston Communications. "We are achieving this with minimal modification to our vital business systems, reducing distraction from our core business objectives and minimising additional project risks in meeting our obligations."

High Performance and Energy Efficient

Any company that needs to effectively manage billions of transactions and terabytes of storage, with an almost surgical approach to data retrieval, will benefit from Sun SDRS. The Sun Fire X4500 server on which the solution is based delivers the remarkable performance of a four-way x64 server with the highest storage density available (up to 24 terabytes in just seven inches of rack space) at very low cost. What's more, SDRS uses 15 times less energy than other solutions in the market today, while retrieving data 20 times faster. The solution has also been created with an eye to the future, providing direct access to source data and providing options to seal generated disclosures to requesting authorities. This helps to ensure evidential quality beyond the immediate confines of the communication provider's environment and helps address legal and civil liberty concerns around the directive. Sun is tracking the evolving ETSI standards for remote data query and hand-over to ensure that the solution will continue to meet future requirements.

Collaborating with CopperEye

By integrating Sun's revolutionary Sun Fire X4500 server with Coppereye's disruptive technology, specific records can be retrieved from within billions of rows of structured, unchanging data in seconds versus minutes or hours. This helps to eliminate the cost and complexity of addressing the EU data retention requirements with traditional data management technologies. Communication Service Providers can now achieve a high-performance end-to-end solution both economically and ecologically without compromising data security or integrity.

"The powerful combination of Sun's industry-changing Sun Fire X4500 server platform with CoppereEye's innovative live archiving software is the perfect match for users who need to store and access vast amounts of compliance records at speeds and price points previously unobtainable, crucially without compromising data security," said Darrell Jordan-Smith, vice president, Communications Industry, Sun Microsystems. "The marriage of these two disruptive technologies provides massive performance with a tiny physical and energy footprint."

Further information regarding Sun's Secure Data Retrieval Server can be found at http://www.sun.com/telecomm

Sun Microsystems Expands Leading Storage Virtualization Platform with Latest Addition to High-End Storage Portfolio

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the expansion of its leading storage virtualization portfolio with the introduction of the Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise Storage System, concurrent with its technology partner Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT). Today's announcement further drives the development of the OpenSolaris storage community and is the latest in a long and successful partnership between the two companies that has yielded some of the industry's most important storage technology breakthroughs to help enterprises solve complex data management challenges.


The new Sun StorageTek 9990V storage system delivers industry-leading performance and scalability along with new thin provisioning capabilities with Dynamic Provisioning software that improves storage utilization, saves money and gives customers an easy, transparent way of adding additional storage as needed over time. The StorageTek 9990V expands Sun's StorageTek 9900 product family to include the enterprise-entry Sun StorageTek 9985, Sun StorageTek 9990 storage system for the data center and new Sun StorageTek 9990V storage offering for the highest-end of the data center market.

"Sun and Hitachi Data Systems have a rich history of solving complex data management problems that reduce time-to-market and total cost of ownership (TCO) for high-end enterprise customers. Together we have helped thousands of enterprises in all industries across the globe address their unique data management challenges. We are pleased to bring the new dynamic provisioning capabilities to customers," said Nigel Dessau, senior vice-president of marketing and business operations, Storage, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

For more information, please see www.sun.com/storage

Sun Microsystems Previews Latest Milestones In Project Open Enterprise Service Bus

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) and the Project Open Enterprise Service Bus (Open ESB) community today announced the next preview release of Open ESB, the standards-based next generation integration platform. Open ESB is an industry-leading open sourced enterprise service bus (ESB) implementation developed under open community process. The latest release, Open ESB 2.0 Preview, allows developers to integrate Web services and enterprise applications as loosely coupled composite applications, thereby making large-scale implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles manageable in a heterogeneous world.


Open ESB includes a standards-compliant Java Business Integration (JBI) runtime and a variety of components and technologies designed to increase business agility and reduce overall integration costs. Furthermore, many of the features developed in Project Open ESB will be made available in future versions of Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS), the company's commercially supported product offering for customers building integration and composite application solutions.

"The availability of Open ESB 2.0 Preview represents the commitment of Sun and the thriving Open ESB community to developing openness and greater interoperability in an area of the integration stack where it has been lacking," said Jim McHugh, vice president of software infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "Software integration challenges are becoming increasingly complex due to evolving market conditions and the rise in mergers and acquisitions, creating immense challenges for CIOs looking to leverage existing investments and integrate disperse systems. Open ESB offers their developers the choice and flexibility needed to embark on SOA initiatives based on their unique circumstances by leveraging open source technologies and integrating best of breed components from ISVs."

Open ESB includes new features and tools to help enable the development and deployment of composite applications while leveraging existing applications and systems. Specifically, the open integration platform offers:

• Increased interoperability with third-party components and platform expansion opportunities that help enable developers to create additional plug-in components to fit specific tasks
  
• Greater integration with other open source software offerings, including Sun-led projects such as GlassFish, which offers an integrated runtime for Open ESB, and NetBeans , which provides developers with a single design tool to build, deploy and test an end-to-end composite application
  
• A viable alternative to proprietary ESB platforms that, through its transparent product development process, helps prevent vendor lock-in issues for developers and helps enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to extend established open platforms with customized offerings to meet specific customer needs

Open ESB 2.0 Preview is available today for free download at: http://open-esb.org. It is also included in the Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Preview 2, which is available at: http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp. Open ESB now includes NetBeans 6.0 IDE Preview release-based tools as well as updated version of the runtimes for JBI, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Service Engine, Intelligent Event Processing (IEP) Service Engine, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Binding Component and many other components. This combination of Open ESB, GlassFish V2 and the NetBeans architecture provides Java technology developers with powerful and quick access to building SOA-based composite applications. For a complete list of new Open ESB features and additional capabilities, visit: http://open-esb.org

Additional Information

To learn more about Project Open ESB, please visit: http://open-esb.org
For more information about JBI and integration technologies, please visit: http://java.sun.com/integration/
For more information about Sun's Java CAPS commercial product, please visit http://www.sun.com/javacaps

About the JavaOne Conference

Located at Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 8-11, the annual JavaOne conference is one of the leading events for Java technology developers. Established in 1996, the Conference provides technology enthusiasts the opportunity to learn about the latest technology innovations with Java technology, scripting, open source, Web 2.0 and more. Developers get hands-on experience with the technology, can network with their peers, and have the opportunity to network directly with technology experts from technology industry leaders. For more information about the JavaOne conference, visit http://java.sun.com/javaone

Sun Expands Solaris 10 Powered Network.com Service to 24 Countries

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced wider international availability and addition of new features to the Sun Grid Compute Utility available from Network.com.


In addition to the United States, the $1/CPU-hr, pay-per-use Network.com utility offering is now available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Developers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and end-users from these countries will now have immediate access to Network.com's powerful, on-demand computing infrastructure powered by the "Solaris 10 OS, as well as to the open source and ISV applications published in Network.com Application Catalog. Users signing up for a Network.com account will get 200 CPU-hrs free for a limited time.

"International availability is an important milestone for Network.com. A large number of new developers who specialize on building compute intensive applications can now deploy on Network.com," said Aisling MacRunnels, vice-president of Software Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "ISVs publishing applications in Network.com Application Catalog will find their addressable market segments rapidly increasing with the broader international access."

The newly announced features include Network.com Internet Access that enables applications running in Network.com to securely access external data and services over the Internet. This feature allows applications running on Sun Grid Compute Utility to access data irrespective of its location on the Internet. This opens the possibility for Network.com to offer new services that are mashups of data and services from multiple sources thereby enabling the developers to take advantage of the online services and databases in innovative ways.

Customers across a wide range of industries - from life sciences to education to manufacturing have already started leveraging the new features of Network.com in their applications. The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) project at Brookhaven National Laboratory is using the Network.com to supplement its massive computational needs. "We have recently ported Starsim, the mainstay simulation application for the STAR project, to the Solaris 10 OS to take advantage of the new features of the Network.com computing infrastructure," said Maxim Potekhin, the simulation leader of the STAR project. "We are approaching the next frontiers in our studies of the "perfect liquid" formed from nuclear matter under extreme conditions, and Network.com is helping us move our simulation effort forward efficiently and without additional infrastructure investment. Looking forward, the STAR project offers a unique opportunity to bridge commercial and non-commercial grids, making a step towards realization of the Sun Microsystem's vision of computing power as a utility."

Sun is also announcing the start of a limited Beta program for developers to try out the new Network.com Job Management Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The APIs provide programmatic access for the most commonly used tasks such as transferring data, applications and results to and from the Sun Grid Compute Utility. The APIs enable integration of Network.com into the enterprise data center. They allow for automated offloading of peaks capacity requirements when demand exceeds available capacity in the enterprise data center.

"The availability of APIs is an important milestone in delivering developers with the ability to perform production scale tests right from their development systems" said Mark Herring, Director of Marketing for Network.com. "It provides developers with the necessary mechanisms to build applications that can truly harness the dynamic compute capacity provided by Network.com."

For more information, please see www.network.com

About Network.com

Network.com provides access to compute infrastructure on a pay-per-use basis via its Sun Grid Compute Utility at $1/CPU-hr. It is powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Sun Grid Engine running on Sun's x64 hardware. CPU-hr is defined as the aggregate time spent across all CPUs and rounded up to the next hour.

Fujitsu And Sun Microsystems Set The Standard For Open Systems Computing With Fastest, Most Reliable Solaris/SPARC Servers

Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) and Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq: SUNW - News) today unveiled a new line-up of co-developed servers that hold the promise of dramatically reshaping the computing market by delivering mainframe-class reliability with open systems advantages. The new servers, based on the SPARC architecture and running the Solaris 10 operating system (OS), are the fastest SPARC servers ever, and will be marketed by both companies and affiliates under the "SPARC Enterprise" product brand. The systems are ideal for customers requiring highly scaleable, reliable servers, and needing to achieve increased system utilization and performance through virtualization. The servers leverage the powerful combination of Fujitsu's expertise in mission-critical computing technologies and high-performance processor design, and Sun's expertise in open, scaleable, network computing.


The SPARC Enterprise server line-up is the culmination of over two years of joint development between Fujitsu and Sun, building on their 20-year strategic relationship. The new servers address the growing customer need to maximize system utilization by offering an array of highly granular partitioning and domaining technologies. The SPARC Enterprise servers are also designed to ensure minimal downtime. They contain mainframe-class RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) features such as hot-swappable components (which includes memory and processors) redundant hardware, instruction retry, memory mirroring and extensive diagnostic and healing capabilities.

To protect customers' existing datacenter investments, Sun guarantees 100% Solaris binary compatibility. This means Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER or Sun's Sun Fire server customers can adopt the new SPARC Enterprise platform with ease and confidence, enabling them to continue to use the broad range of proven Solaris applications (the No. 1 share in the UNIX market) from the world's top ISV/IHV providers.

"These new systems help customers tackle the world's most challenging computing problems, whether in the back office or in high-performance computing," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's Systems group. "And they achieve this performance while delivering mainframe reliability with the unmatched virtualization capabilities that Solaris customers expect."

"The combination of Fujitsu's mission-critical computing technology and Sun's Solaris in the new SPARC Enterprise server line-up, enables us to deliver maximum business value to our customers, "said Chiaki Ito, Corporate Senior Executive Vice President, Fujitsu Limited. "Not only will they see outstanding performance, smarter resource management and reduced administrative intervention, but unparalleled levels of quality and scalability, that mean increased longevity of use and improved business growth potential."

The new servers are already demonstrating their performance leadership. The SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) with SPARC64 VI 2.4 GHz processor running SAP ERP 2005, Oracle Database 10g and Solaris 10 set a new world-record for the SAP SD 2-tier standard application benchmark for systems with 16 processors as of 04/17/07, achieving 7,300 SD benchmark users.*

New SPARC Enterprise Servers

The new SPARC Enterprise servers will include six models. Entry models use the UltraSPARC T1 processor developed by Sun Microsystems. Mid-range and high-end models use the SPARC64 VI processor developed by Fujitsu. These systems deliver up to 50 percent more performance than current SPARC-based servers. All the new servers run the Solaris 10 operating system.

Both Fujitsu branded and Sun branded SPARC Enterprise servers will be marketed worldwide. All other features are identical. The systems are available today.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of about 4.8 trillion yen (US$40.6 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006. See http://www.fujitsu.com for further information.


*The SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark performed on March 28, 2007 by Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems in Walldorf, Germany has been certified with the following data:

Number of benchmark users & comp.: 7,300 SD (Sales & Distribution)
Average dialog response time: 1.98 seconds
Throughput:
Fully Processed Order Line items/hour: 731,330
Dialog steps/hour: 2,194,000
SAPS: 36,570
Average DB request time (dia/upd): 0.018 sec / 0.041 sec
CPU utilization of central server: 99%
Operating System central server: Solaris 10
RDBMS: Oracle 10g
SAP ECC Release: 6.0

Configuration:
Central server: SPARC Enterprise Server Model M8000, 16 processors / 32 cores / 64 threads,
SPARC64 VI, 2.4 GHz, 256 KB L1 cache per core, 6 MB L2 cache per processor, 256 GB main memory

The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at the following web page: www.sap.com/benchmark.

Sun Microsystems Expands Leading Storage Portfolio with New World-Record Setting Modular Disk Low-Cost Array (LCA)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced it has expanded its leading storage portfolio to include the Sun StorageTek ST2500 Low Cost Array (LCA), Sun's first serial-attached SCSI (SAS) storage array and newest member of the modular disk storage family that works with the Solaris Operating System (OS) and other heterogeneous data center environments. Sun also announced next-generation data management capabilities for its industry-standard storage portfolio that include the addition of partitioning functionality to its StorageTek SL8500 enterprise tape library and secure encryption to its Sun StorageTek T10000 FICON tape drive.


As more Web 2.0 companies and existing enterprises like Elektrofilm, Rhythm and Hues, and Thought Equity Motion move their growing core businesses to the Internet, the way the world manages data is changing to support this resulting data growth. Sun recently became the first major vendor to begin to open source its software stack through the OpenSolaris community (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-04/sunflash.20070410.1.xml) and today's product portfolio enhancements reaffirm the company's commitment to deliver end-to-end open storage solutions that better protect, archive and retrieve customer data, their most important asset.

"Sun is using innovation and open standards to reach out to new customers in the explosive Web 2.0 market that require applications that work with low-cost storage and which horizontally scale," said Nigel Dessau, senior vice president of storage marketing and business operations, Sun Microsystems. "Starting at less than $10,000, the new ST2500 array line provides the perfect entry point for these customers to use industry standard platforms to support their growing businesses."

Sun's Entry Point SAS Storage Array: Three Times Better Performance at Less than One-Half the Cost

Sun continues to enhance its strong storage infrastructure portfolio with its first SAS storage array: the world-record-setting Sun StorageTek ST2500 Low Cost Array (LCA) that is priced under $10,000 and which was designed as a data access and protection tier for emerging and established mid-tier customers and enterprises. Setting a new world record for price/performance, the ST2500 demonstrated 3x better performance at less than 1/2 the cost of HP storage and other competing solutions.(1)

The 2500 series arrays join five other storage products that are available as Sun Systems Packs, which make it easier for Sun customers to acquire the right level of support with their hardware.

Product features include: Application-oriented provisioning using Sun's StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM); support for either FC or SAS host interfaces; small footprint at six drives-per rack unit; reliable data protection with a fully redundant RAID; and remote connection to Sun Service. The iSCSI version of ST2500 is expected to be available later in CY'07. This Tier 2 storage product includes a common set of management tools that allows customers to simply scale their data requirements to Tier 1 (fast access) data devices - all under the same management module - and then scale to the ST6140 or ST6540.

Sun Announces Support for LTO 4 Generation Tape Drives to Address Growing Data Storage Needs

Sun is pleased to announce the addition of the fourth generation of LTO drive technology in its tape portfolio, an open standard LTO consortium that Sun has supported from the beginning. The LTO 4 FC Tape Drive delivers high capacity (800 GB/cartridge native) and increased performance (120MB/sec) for customers' open systems environments to improve storage density in new or existing libraries and allow for easy upgrades to newer technology in the same automation footprint. LTO 4 FC drives will initially be available in Sun's tape automation products, including the StorageTek SL8500, L1400 and SL500, later this quarter and additional interfaces and support are expected to follow in the next quarter.

Other Sun end-to-end storage product enhancements announced at Storage Networking World include:

• SL8500 partitioning – a new feature of the award winning SL8500 tape library to further enable secure data archiving: Partitioning will help allow customers to keep separate open systems and mainframe functions within the same library. The partitioning capability in the SL8500 enables seamless consolidation of both open systems and mainframe environments, further enhancing simplicity and cost savings in the data center;


• T10000 FICON tape drive is now available "crypto-ready": When purchased in conjunction with Sun StorageTek Crypto Key Management Station, this drive allows customers to implement Sun's encryption solution in the mainframe environment. The T10000 FICON Crypto-Ready tape drive is available behind VSM as well, enabling the premier mainframe virtual solution secure data protection capabilities. T10000 drives are supported with essential services like Encryption, Implementation, and Sun Migration Services for the ESCON to FICON Technology, which include three key steps that are tailored to customer requirements — the migration workshop, architecture assessment, and implementation service;


• The availability of the Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager 4.6 and Sun StorageTek QFS 4.6 software: Saves customers money by providing automated storage tiering and archiving. The 4.6 release significantly improves management and monitoring, availability, scalability, performance, and data validation;


• The availability of the Sun Virtual Tape Library Plus (VTL+): Bridges the gap between disk and tape – offering a performance and cost effective solution for business to create copies of their data for quick and simple access, while leveraging all the cost benefits of tiered tape storage behind disk;


• Serial attached-SCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) are also being announced to support the ST2500 array; includes both PCI-X and PCI-E SAS HBAs.

Pricing and Availability

The ST2500 Lost Cost Array (LCA) starts at less than $10,000 and is available immediately. The Sun T10000 FICON tape drive available crypto-ready starts at $44,000 and the Sun Virtual Tape Library Plus (VTL+) begins at $135,000 highly configured.

For more information for all product families can be found online at http://www.sun.com/storage



(1) New arrays deliver the first SPC-2 SAS results of RAID 5 at 735.62 SPC-2 MBPS @ $45.91 $/SPC-2 MBPS, ASU Capacity 2,177.548GB, Protection Level RAID 5, Total Price $33,772, Identifier# B00021and Mirroring at 730.04 SPC-2 MBPS @ $46.26 $/SPC-2 MBPS, ASU Capacity 1,282.048GB, Protection Level Mirroring, Total Price $33,772, Identifier# B00022 (www.storageperformance.org/results) with 2.5x better performance at almost half the price than HP's StorageWorks 1000 of Mirroring at 285.39 SPC-2 MBPS @ $73.12 $/SPC-2 MBPS, ASU Capacity 362.925, Protection Level Mirroring, Total Price $20,868 Identifier# B00020; Sun StorageTek 2540 array sets new world records for SPC-2 price/performance and delivers best SPC-2 throughput performance in its class.

Sun Sets New World Records With Enhanced UltraSPARC IV+ Servers Running Solaris

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the availability of faster 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz UltraSPARC(R) IV+ processors for its popular Sun Fire servers. New Sun Fire servers with UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz processors offer world record performance, easy application portability and industry leading investment protection. The new servers are powered by the Solaris Operating System (OS), which delivers customers unbroken binary compatibility, thus ensuring that existing applications will run on the new UltraSPARC IV+ processors without the need to re-code or re-compile.


According to industry analyst reports, Sun has gained market share for four consecutive quarters. SPARC-based systems represent a significant portion of that growth and the new 1.95GHz and 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors demonstrate Sun's ongoing commitment to improving the performance of the SPARC architecture and the protection of customer investment.

"SPARC, with Solaris, is the engine that drives our server business, and we're committed to continual improvements on our SPARC-based products," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. "The growing demand for UltraSPARC IV+ servers has helped Sun build tremendous market momentum in our systems line-up, and steal significant market share at the expense of our competitors."

Sun Sets New World Records

The Sun Fire E2900 with UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz (US-IV+1.95GHz) set a new world-record for a single application server, with a Sun Fire T2000 as the database server, on SPECjAppServer2004 achieving >1781 JOPS - the highest 2-node result performance record to date. The Sun Fire (US-IV+1.95GHz) uses six Solaris containers which - through consolidation - improves datacenter efficiency and promotes higher levels of system utilization.1

The Sun Fire E6900 (24 processors, 48 cores, 48 threads) with UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95GHz set a new world-record for the SAP-SD 2-Tier Standard Application benchmark for systems with 24 or fewer processors as of 04/02/07, achieving 6160 users.2

Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ servers now own over 75 world-record benchmarks.

The Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers, powered by new 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors have up to 2x the life of comparable IBM servers and up to 1/3 better TCO.

When compared to previous generations, the new UltraSPARC IV+ processor has shown 2X performance over the UltraSPARC IV and 5X performance over the UltraSPARC III.

Sun Fire UltraSPARC platforms are designed to help customers with CRM, business intelligence/data warehousing, and enterprise applications using large databases. The systems are ideal for virtualization environments using a combination of fault isolated hard partitions and flexible Solaris Containers. Solaris 10 Containers can consolidate and virtualize hundreds of applications on a single system so customers save in energy, space and complexity. Solaris Container management is superior to HP and IBM partitioning strategies as it requires less overhead, while providing resource flexibility down to a single processor.

For more information on Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor line, please visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=Sun%20Fire%20Midrange%20Servers&tab=3&subcat=Sun%20UltraSPARC%20IV%2b/IV



About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire, UltraSPARC, Solaris, and the Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

1. SPECjAppServer2004
1 Sun Fire E2900 (24 cores, 12 chips) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
6 HP DL380 (12 cores, 12 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1664.36 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 IBM xSeries 365 (20 cores, 20 chips) and 2 IBM xSeries 365 (8 cores, 8 chips) 1343.47
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 HP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 Sun Fire X4100 (20 cores, 10 chips) and 1 Sun Fire E6900 (32 cores, 16 chips) 1781.47
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 04/03/2007

2. Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark: Sun Fire E6900, 24 processors / 48 cores / 48 threads, UltraSPARC IV+, 1950 MHz, 128 KB(D) + 128 KB(I) L1 cache, 2 MB L2 cache on-chip, 32 MB L3 cache off-chip, 96 GB main memory. Number of benchmark users & comp.: 6,160 SD (Sales & Distribution) Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds Throughput: Fully Processed Order Line items/hour: 616,330 Dialog steps/hour: 1,849,000 SAPS: 30,820 Average DB request time (dia/upd): 0.018 sec / 0.033 sec CPU utilization of central server: 99% Operating System central server: Solaris 10 RDBMS: Oracle 10g SAP ECC Release: 6.0. The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at the following Web page: www.sap.com/benchmark

HP Integrity Superdome-16 (16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9050, 256GB memory, 5,600 SD benchmark users, 1.91s avg resp time, Cert#2006090, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition; Unisys Enterprise Server Model ES7000/one (16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core

Intel Itanium 2 9050, 256GB memory, 4,884 SD benchmark users, 1.93s avg resp time, Cert#2006091, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition; IBM System p5 570 (16 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 16 x 2.2 GHz POWER5+, 128 GB memory, 5,520 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006044, DB2 UDB 8.2.2, AIX 5.3; Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 480 (32 procs, 32 cores, 32 threads) 32 x 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2, 256 GB memory, 5,000 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006023, Oracle 9i, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9;SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark.

Sun Microsystems Expands Focus on Silicon Design

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the formation of a Microelectronics group to be led by executive vice president, Dr. David Yen. The Microelectronics group will oversee the developments in network, cryptography and high-performance computing and serve as a supplier to Sun's existing Systems businesses, in addition to serving OEM customers across the globe. Yen, who previously led Sun's Storage business will be succeeded by Jon Benson, a Sun senior vice president. Both Yen and Benson will report to Jonathan Schwartz, Sun president and CEO.


"The broad acceptance of the open source Solaris operating system running on Dell, HP and IBM hardware shows that Sun's innovations have value and appeal beyond our own servers and storage products," said Schwartz. "With numerous successes including the success of our UltraSPARC T1 processors fueling the growth of our chip multi-threaded servers, the tapeout of our Rock processors defining new terrain in high-productivity computing, and innovations like Project Neptune opening entirely new markets for our technology. Now is the time to fuel that same success with our Microelectronics products. As with our software, decoupling our silicon from a strict reliance on Sun's systems raises our profile and opportunity globally."

For more than 20 years Sun has been a leader in delivering world-class silicon designs, a competency that has proven instrumental in the competitive differentiation of generations of Sun products. Innovations expected from the new Microelectronics group will range from high-speed networking silicon designs to the next generation of open-sourced chip multi-threading processors.

Yen takes the lead of the Microelectronics group with 27 years of technology know-how, engineering vision and business management expertise. His key roles at Sun have included serving as vice president and general manager for Sun's enterprise server business, executive vice president of processor and network products and executive vice president of scalable systems. In the last five years, Yen successfully refreshed the Company's SPARC® processor-based server line, introduced the vision of throughput computing in the processor industry, and released the world's first eco-friendly, multi-core/multi-thread, open-sourced microprocessor, the UltraSPARC T1. Yen has a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering and holds three U.S. patents.

Benson takes the helm of Sun's Storage business and will lead the evolution of Sun's tape, SAN and archive solutions. As part of the leadership transition, Sun's NAS and storage appliance portfolio—key intersection technologies between Systems and Storage—will move to John Fowler who manages Sun's Systems business unit. By leveraging the expertise and processes used to build servers alongside Solaris, Sun is positioned to build ever more innovative, compelling and competitive products for the storage markets.

Benson, a 20-year veteran of the storage industry, most recently served as vice president of engineering for Sun's virtual storage and tape solutions business. Previously, he was vice president and general manager of StorageTek's overall tape business. In this role, he drove the architecture and development of Sun's award-winning tape automation systems including the Sun StorageTek SL8500 and SL500 tape libraries for which he holds several patents. Benson has a degree in electrical engineering.

"The storage market continues to grow, in diversity and value, and Sun continues to drive innovations at the convergence of the computing, storage and networking markets," adds Schwartz. "Only Sun has the ability to span the mainframe environment, with our legendary SL8500 libraries and crypto-ready T10000 tape drives, all the way through to the emerging market for open source NAS appliances, via the Solaris/ZFS-based Sun Fire x4500. We fully intend on leveraging those assets as we continue to raise our profile and presence in the global market for storage products."

Sun Introduces Its First Nebs Level 3 Rack Server Powered By The AMD Opteron Processor, Offering Industry's Broadest OS Support, Including Solaris 10

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today introduced the Netra X4200 M2 server, Sun's first Network Equipment Building Standard (NEBS) Level 3 Certified Rack Server powered by the AMD Opteron processor and offering the industry's broadest operating system (OS) support, including the Solaris 10 OS, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, and Windows. Based on the Sun Fire X4200 M2 server announced in October 2006, the Netra X4200 M2 server is Sun's first Netra rackmount server developed with industry-standard x64 (x86, 64-bit) architecture.


The Netra X4200 M2 server offers some of the industry's highest storage and memory capacity in a 2U, 20-inch package -- with up to four, 146GB SAS drives and up to 32GB of memory -- and ships ready to support the new Sun Multithreaded Networking Card to enable significantly higher network throughput. Sun will be adding support for the Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE Networking Technology to the Netra family of servers, delivering application performance improvements of up to four times Sun's current network interfaces when paired with x64 or SPARC multi-core servers. The Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE Networking Technology is designed to take advantage of the Solaris OS' threaded design for optimized throughput, regardless of the processor.

"Adding x64 rackmount architecture to the Netra server family extends the choice of platforms for our customers and partners in the telco space," said Mark Butler, Netra systems product line director, Sun Microsystems. "Now telco companies that want industry-standard hardware can develop their solutions on Sun ATCA blades or rackmount servers, the broadest offering of carrier grade platforms in the industry."

"This next deployment of the Sun Netra platform -- the X4200 M2 -- is quite impressive, both from a performance and quality point of view. It not only leverages the throughput and power of AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture but demonstrates Sun’s commitment to our continuing relationship," said Peter Robinson, telecom segment manager, AMD. "Sun and AMD have a long history of providing industry-standard x86 hardware to many vertical markets, and we will continue to work together to extend such offerings to the telco industry."

Customers and ISVs Show Support for Sun Netra Family

The Netra X4200 M2 server can be used to create solutions such as media servers, voice over IP (VoIP), signaling gateway controllers, element management systems, network traffic analysis systems, operation management systems and data management systems. Siemens Networks is deploying Netra X4200 M2 servers to run its VoIP applications.

"Siemens Networks has been validating the Netra X4200 M2 server in our laboratories for several months now," said Joachim Ungruh, Senior Vice President, VoIP Solutions, Siemens Networks. "While we are still in the platform verification phase, it has exceeded our performance expectations. The Netra X4200 M2 will significantly enhance the competitiveness of our Consumer and Business VoIP solution offerings, continuing to reinforce Siemens' strategy to leverage the technology advancements of market-leading computing platforms."

A number of ISVs are developing applications for the Netra X4200 M2 server, including Adax, AppGate Network Security, Appium, jNetX and Surf. In addition, Sun's ATCA products are being used to create solutions for large wireless OAM&P systems, multimedia messaging servers, next-generation IMS platforms, wireless access and next-generation gateways. Sun intends to make its leading Multithreaded 10 GbE Networking Technology available across the ATCA portfolio in the near future. The Netra Data Plane Software Suite announced in December is also gaining support from leading ISVs, including SDC Labs, Surf and Teja Technologies. For more information on ISV support of the Netra X4200 M2, please visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/netra/x4200/perspectives.xml. For more information on ISV endorsements for Sun's ATCA products, please visit: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/boards/cp3060/perspectives.xml

Availability and Pricing

The 2-socket version of the Netra X4200 M2 server is available now, with entry-level pricing starting at $9,845. The 1-socket version is scheduled to be available in May with entry-level pricing starting at $6,145. For more information on the Netra X4200 M2, please visit: http://www.sun.com/netra/x4200. To learn more about Sun's entire Netra ATCA blade server family, please visit: http://www.sun.com/atca. For more information on support for Sun's OEM customers, please visit: http://www.sun.com/oem/

ORCL: Oracle Announces Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations

Oracle today announced the Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations that allow joint Oracle and Sun customers to reduce the risk and deployment time of data warehousing solutions based on Oracle(r) Database 10g and Sun servers, storage and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
The Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations are reference configurations that provide a recommended database, server, and storage mix for a customer's specific requirements. Implementing an Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundation-based data warehouse solution can decrease customers' buying cycle by weeks and streamline data warehouse implementations.

As part of Oracle's Information Appliance Initiative, these reference configurations have carefully combined CPU resources, memory, I/O bandwidth and disks into a well-balanced design that will help prevent performance or capacity bottlenecks. Oracle and its hardware partners have developed configurations for data warehouses with varying raw data, average concurrent user and workload complexity. These configurations have the capability to handle data warehouses ranging from 300 gigabytes to 10 terabytes, and from light to heavy workloads. The Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foundations offer multiple solutions for each set of requirements allowing customers to quickly choose among vertical (single server systems), horizontal (clustered server systems) configurations and SPARC(tm) or x64 (x86, 64-bit) architectures running Solaris(tm) or other supported operating systems. In addition to the servers, the Foundations also cover Sun's StorageTek disk arrays.

"These Foundations provide our customers a choice of fast, scalable and reliable solutions to run their data warehousing systems," said Willie Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing, Oracle. "They're designed to help take the risk out of building a data warehouse that can meet short term requirements and provide a path for future growth. This announcement marks another significant milestone in delivering business value for Sun and Oracle customers."

"Sun and Oracle's joint effort improves architecture design and selection processes for IT departments, making it easy to implement well-designed, right-sized data warehouse solutions built upon Sun's robust infrastructure offerings including the Solaris 10 operating system," said Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of market development at Sun. "Customers are sure to benefit from this timely and economic approach, making these joint reference configurations the smart way to pick the optimal solution for their business."

For more information about the Oracle and Sun Reference Configuration program customers can go to: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/sun.html. For more information about the Oracle Information Appliance Initiative, go to: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/oiai.html .

About Oracle Database 10g
The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ GS: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com .

Sun Hits Key Milestone With CoolThreads Servers, Solaris 10 By Surpassing One Million CPU Threads Shipped

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced that it has shipped over one million CPU "threads," and passed the half-billion dollar revenue mark for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. When Sun introduced the chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor and systems in late 2005, it demonstrated that its breakthrough multi-core, multi-thread approach could deliver superior performance while also being highly space and energy efficient. Sun's threaded approach starts with the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), which treats each thread as a virtual CPU, thus enabling brutal efficiency and energy savings.


To demonstrate the potential energy savings and eco-advantages of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, Sun is estimating that since the first product was shipped over a half billion pounds of CO2 have been saved from entering the atmosphere. This is equivalent taking over twenty nine thousand cars off the road for a year, or not burning 17.7 million gallons of gasoline. With these potential savings to the environment, it's fitting that Sun's achievement coincides with International Earth Day.

"While Solaris has been able to handle thousands of parallel threads for over a decade, we made the decision a few years ago to focus SPARC development on chip multi-threading. We bet that what will matter to CIOs is data center efficiency - maximizing the amount of work that gets done at the lowest possible operating cost," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's Systems business. "We now calculate that only 15 percent of the T1000 CPU processor cycles go unused, which compares very favorably to the 85 percent wasted cycles from competitive processors. In today's business environment, where electricity is expensive but the need for compute performance is increasing, we're convinced we've taken the best approach for customers, and, we hope, the planet as well."

The UltraSPARC T1 processor, with its 32-threads, is just the first in a roadmap of CMT processors that Sun will introduce over the next two years. Sun plans to ship systems based on its 64-thread "Niagara 2" processor in the second-half of this calendar year. And Sun has successfully completed the tapeout (initial design completion for first fabrication) of its high-end "Rock" processor.

Customers can evaluate the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers for 60 days with no obligation to buy through Sun's 'Try and Buy Program': (www.sun.com/tryandbuy/). The program and these servers have helped Sun reach customers outside its installed base, and have played an important role in helping Sun grow its server market share for four consecutive quarters, according to the most recent IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Customers that have purchased the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers include Fotolog, Joyent, City of Henderson, Lokalisten, DigiTar and PlanetOut.

Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN) And Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) Expand Alliance with Global Distribution Agreement

Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN), a worldwide leader in removable data storage, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced a distribution agreement naming Imation the worldwide media distributor for Sun's full line of data storage media. Under terms of the agreement, Imation will become the distributor of the full portfolio of Sun-branded tape media for entry-level, mid-range and data-center environments. Already the exclusive co-developer, manufacturer and distributor of Sun StorageTek 9840 and 9940 tape cartridges, Imation will now also distribute Sun's newest Sun StorageTek T10000 format, as well as all Sun StorageTek-branded LTO Ultrium, Super DLTtape, DLTtape, and DDS tape cartridges, globally.


"Today's announcement is ultimately about simplifying the process for customers and creating new opportunities for partners by providing a one-stop shopping experience for tape media," said Nigel Dessau, senior vice president, Storage Marketing and Business Operations, Sun Microsystems. "We expect Imation's global distribution capabilities and worldwide reach, from the Americas to Europe and Asia-Pacific, will benefit both customers and resellers via quick and easy access to media for Sun StorageTek tape drives and libraries."

"Imation is pleased to add the Sun brand to our global portfolio," said Frank Russomanno, president, chief operating officer and acting chief executive officer, Imation. "We have a long history of working with Sun to meet the needs of our mutual customers who require the highest quality data storage products, responsive customer service and top-notch technical support. Pairing Sun's trusted media brand with Imation's global distribution capabilities will provide significant benefits for our companies and our customers."

"The distribution agreement between Imation and Sun Microsystems is very positive news for our customers," said Al Zoldos, vice president of Sales for Corporate Express Imaging & Computer Graphic Supplies (NYSE: BUH), one of the largest distributors of data center media and high-speed production printer supplies. "This expanded alliance provides added convenience and helps to ensure that, as a reseller, Corporate Express can readily provide our customers with the full portfolio of Sun-branded tape media."

This agreement is one of several with premier companies looking to build on Imation's worldwide distribution capability and knowledge. Imation's regional sales and marketing headquarters are located in Oakdale, Minn., serving North America; Miami, Fla., serving Latin America; Schiphol, The Netherlands, serving Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Hong Kong, serving Asia-Pacific. Imation serves customers in over 100 countries.

For more information and country contacts, see www.imation.com

About Imation

Imation Corp is the only company in the world solely focused on the development, manufacture and supply of removable data storage products spanning the four pillars of magnetic, optical, flash and removable hard disk storage. With more than 50 years of data storage leadership beginning with the development of the world's first computer tape, Imation proudly marked its tenth anniversary as an independent company in 2006. In addition to the Imation brand, Imation Corp's global brand portfolio includes the Memorex brand, one of the most widely recognized names in the consumer electronics industry, famous for the slogan, "Is it live or is it Memorex?" Additional information about Imation is available at www.imation.com or by calling 1-888-466-3456.

SUNW: Sun Extends Leadership in Identity Management with Three New Professional Services

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), today introduced three new offerings to its portfolio of Identity Management Professional Services, designed to help speed customer time to value with less implementation risk and cost and providing project predictability and faster return on investment (ROI) for identity management projects. Sun Human Resources Synchronization Service, Sun Role Management Service, and Sun Password Management Service combine best practices, proven methodologies and Sun expertise, as well as utilize the Sun Velocity Identity Deployment Tool.


These new services enable Sun's identity management consultants and Sun's partner community to deliver end-to-end identity management solutions characterized by faster implementations with more predictable results. Sun's partner community is excited about these new offerings. Both Deloitte and Accenture are working with Sun to establish their approach and training programs to enable them to leverage these Identity Management services in the market place.

"In today's marketplace, access is everything. Customers are continually wrestling with how to provide appropriate, secure data access to a wide range of users via a solution that is cost-effective, secure and fast," said Adolfo Hernandez, senior vice president, Global Services Practice, Sun Microsystems. "The services we're announcing today bring together Sun's team of identity management experts, the Sun Velocity Identity Deployment Tool and best practices to help companies remain competitive while keeping their information assets secure."

"Sun Java System Identity Manager is an elegant solution. It's a very intuitive product," said Norma McKelvy, Corporate Privacy and Security Officer, BlueCross Blue Shield of Kansas City. "The integration with Sun Velocity Identity Deployment Tool, the expertise of Sun's technical staff and their deep involvement in our development process have created a high level of trust."

"As Accenture and Sun's joint clients demand robust identity management solutions, we are pleased to see Sun introducing innovative new services offerings to help customers protect their most critical information and assets," said Rob Dyson, Senior Executive, Global Security Solutions, Accenture.

Each of the new Identity Management Professional Services are based on Sun's Velocity Identity Deployment Tool, an enabling technology that through automation and implementation methodology, delivers the unique business value of the service. Leveraging this technology, customers receive a supportable, maintainable and well documented identity management solution that includes automated business processes and integrated toolsets that help speed time to market.

Sun Human Resources Synchronization Service: Provides enterprises with a solution that links key information, like user names and passwords, to resources that users need to access in order to do their jobs. Sun provides common implementation scenarios to quickly allow enterprises to automatically provision IT resources based an authoritative HR system.
Sun Role Management Service: Leverages the Sun HR Synchronization Service or another authoritative source in place to address common provisioning and compliance scenarios centered on the concept of roles based access control. The service uses a framework of business and functional roles to control access and provide the ability to define, maintain, and audit roles in relation to both the business and functional roles within an organization. The role management framework helps companies avoid the common pitfalls associated with role proliferation or "role explosion."
Sun Password Management Service: Builds an automated password management framework that reduces administrative and operating costs associated with the processing and management of passwords. As part of the service, consultants build out various password management functions including how to process and manage authentication questions. This service helps customers achieve a significant reduction of Help Desk costs related to password management calls.
Each service includes consulting, architectural, and implementation activities designed to help deliver a solution that addresses the creation and modification of users throughout their account lifecycle.

Sun and its partner community also offer a complete portfolio of identity management services which helps customers from evaluation, through architecture and management of their identity management strategy.

For more information on Sun Identity Management Professional Services, visit: http://www.sun.com/service/identityprofessionalservices. For more information on Sun's Java System Identity Management software, visit: http://www.sun.com/identity

SUNW: Sun Releases Optimized AMP Stack for Solaris 10 Along With New OpenSolaris Distribution For Developers

Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) the creator of Java technology, the Solaris Operating System (OS) and the world's leading contributor of open source code, today announced a new set of products and services that will help make it easier for developers, start-ups and Internet companies to build and deploy their Web infrastructure on the free and open source-based Solaris 10 OS. The three offerings available today are:

• Solaris Express, Developer Edition, an OpenSolaris-based distribution for Solaris, Java, and Web 2.0 developers


• Solaris + AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP), an open source-based Web infrastructure stack optimized for the Solaris 10 OS


• An expanded Sun Startup Essentials program

More details on today's announcements can be found at: http://www.sun.com/web.

"Internet start-ups and Web 2.0 companies have shown a preference for open source software running on x86 hardware platforms," said Rich Green, executive vice president of Software for Sun. "With this announcement, we are making it easier and less expensive for them to get up and running with familiar tools, like Apache and MySQL, combined with the superior security and performance of Solaris 10 and attractive programs to tie it all together."


Solaris Express, Developer Edition
Solaris Express, Developer Edition is the first iteration of a new distribution based on the OpenSolaris project, providing developers with a fully integrated environment for the development of applications for Solaris, Java technology, and Web 2.0. Solaris Express, Developer Edition supports a wide variety of common x86-based desktop and laptop hardware and offers a simplified install experience so companies can get Solaris up and running more easily, reduce development time and save money. This release also includes an improved GNOME-based desktop and award-winning Sun development tools, including Sun Studio 11 software and NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 5.5, as well as over 150 open source applications. Sun plans to release regular updates to Solaris Express, Developer Edition with additional capabilities and ease of use improvements. More information on this new program is available at: http://developers.sun.com/solarisdevex.



Solaris + AMP
Sun is now offering versions of some of the most popular open-source applications optimized for Solaris, including: the Apache web server, MySQL database management system, PostgreSQL object-relational database management system, Perl, PHP and Python, as well as Sun developer tools and other open source technologies. For customers committed to the open AMP stack, this offer provides the same web applications they know and use on a more secure platform with greater scalability for building and deploying web applications. As part of the new program, Sun is posting a "recipe for success" of complete step-by-step instructions so customers can get up and running more quickly, as well as multiple levels of Sun Services. Solaris + AMP also leverages Sun's popular Try and Buy Program where customers can receive a free 60 days trial of Sun systems including: Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers, Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, Sun Ultra Workstations and Sun Storage systems. More information is available at: http://www.sun.com/solaris/amp.



Sun Startup Essentials Program
Sun has expanded its Startup Essentials program to offer even more features to help startup companies accelerate their development cycle and get to market faster, while conserving their cash. This expanded program offers an improved buying experience with streamlined, online access to Sun hardware, including its award-winning Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology running the Solaris 10 OS or other operating systems. Starting today, Sun is adding Sun StorageTek modular disk arrays, NAS and tape storage products to the program at deeply discounted prices. In addition to offering free technical resources online, Sun is also offering Startup Essentials program participants free technical advice and guidance via e-mail. For full details visit: http://www.sun.com/startupessentials.



Developer Services
Developers can receive specialized advice for programming issues relating to Solaris Express, Developer Edition on a per-request basis with guaranteed response times through Sun Developer Expert Assistance Service. The service is available to all developers with a cost of $49 (USD) per request or unlimited requests for an annual subscription cost of $249 (USD). Sun Developer Expert Assistance Service will be available for Solaris + AMP stack at the end of February, 2007 with full production support on Solaris available early this summer. Sun Developer Expert Assistance Service provides global, round-the-clock e-mail based support on Sun software. More information is available at http://developers.sun.com/services, the comprehensive location for developers to discover all the Sun support and training options.

SUNW: Sun Microsystems and Mentor Graphics Collaborate to Provide Solaris 10-based EDA Solutions on x64 Platforms

Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), the creator of the Solaris Operating System (OS), and Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced that Mentor Graphics would begin qualifying and supporting selected Mentor products on x64/x86 platforms running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). This outlines Mentor Graphics' intent to include market leading products BoardStation XE, Calibre nmDRC and LVS, Design for Test suite, and O-In product lines in the Questa functional verification platform.


"In cooperation with Sun, we are focused on providing products by the end of this calendar year running on x64/x86 platforms powered by the Solaris 10 OS, which address many different areas of design and design flow," said Greg Hinckley, President, Mentor Graphics. "This combination of market leading applications, the Solaris 10 OS and Sun's powerful x64/x86 workstations and servers is anticipated to provide optimal solutions for engineering teams developing next-generation system-on-chip and printed circuit board designs."

"Mentor Graphics and Sun have a long history of collaboration, so it's natural that we would expand our partnership," said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Sun Microsystems. "Solaris, as the only UNIX OS that runs on x64/x86-based systems, is ideally suited to address the challenges of deep sub-micron design."

"We are pleased to see these two industry leading companies, Sun Microsystems and Mentor Graphics, collaborating in this fashion," said Toshiaki Machida, General Manager of NEC Electronics' Development Support Center, Technology Foundation Development Operation Unit. "With Mentor Graphics providing support for the Solaris 10 OS running on platforms such as the "Sun Fire x64/x86 servers, NEC can effectively leverage the depth of in-house Solaris expertise to provide the robust design infrastructure needed to bring next generation products to market."

"Our infrastructure investment is protected," continued NEC's Machida, "with the guaranteed forward compatibility of the Solaris operating system, which ensures that our engineers can count on application and infrastructure stability throughout the lifetime of our evermore complex development projects."

About Questa

The Questa platform is a mixed-language verification solution that supports simulation, assertions, coverage and testbench automation.

About Calibre nmDRC and LVS

Calibre nmDRC is the solution to the physical verification challenges of nanometer design. Calibre nmDRC, with the new Hyperscaling processing architecture, produces best-in-class DRC run times with scalability to 100 CPUs. Calibre LVS is unique among LVS tools as it measures actual device geometries for a complete accounting of physical parameters. These precise device parameters supply the information for back-annotation to the source schematic as well as the comprehensive data needed for running simulations.

About BoardStation XE

The Board Station XE flow enables highly productive design of complex PCBs through modern and innovative design tools while minimizing risk and leveraging customers' investments in Board Station libraries, designs, & front-end tools.

About Design for Test

A broad portfolio of DFT solutions for today's System-on-Chip and deep submicron designs, including integrated solutions for scan, automatic test pattern generation (ATPG), electronic design and test (EDT), advanced memory test, boundary scan, logic built-in self-test and a variety of DFT-related flows.

Availability

Questa, ModelSim and O-In support for Solaris 10 on x64/x86 systems is targeted for Q3 2007. Calibre nmDRC and LVS, Boardstation XE and the Design for Test suite availability is targeted for Q4 2007.

About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $750 million and employs approximately 4,100 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/