Sun Microsystems Press Releases

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced key technology enhancements and rapid customer adoption rates across its Unified Storage systems portfolio that extend the performance and data protection capabilities of the Sun Storage 7000 family. New software features and up to 30 percent greater controller performance extend the power of the industry's fast-growing Open Storage effort.

Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. With an emphasis on emerging markets such as India, China, Indonesia and Russia, Sun's Software Freedom Day events are designed to help developers on all levels to better understand and generate increased involvement in open source technologies.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced Amino Communications, the world's leading independent IPTV specialists, plans to offer the JavaFX TV platform in their next generation IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) to help enable the creation of rich and expressive interactive content by global content authors. Content developers and authors can become part of this community by visiting javafx.com for more information, samples, and the JavaFX SDK.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that its Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) technology set three new world-records on industry-standard e-mail serving and Java benchmarks. These records highlight the enterprise-class performance and significant infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's Open Network Systems with the Solaris Operating System (OS) deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage. Sun also announced outstanding performance on the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (BI Suite EE) test and Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM).

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today continued to demonstrate leadership in the data security market as it became the first and only tape drive vendor to be granted the FIPS 140-2 Certification at Security Level 2 for its Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive. Sun also announced that the KMS Agent API, published as an Open Source toolkit by the OpenSolaris community, has been adopted and is now supported by HP and IBM in their LTO tape drives, and by EMC in their RSA RKM enterprise key management system.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced that at a special meeting of stockholders held on July 16, 2009, its stockholders adopted the merger agreement entered into with Oracle Corporation, under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. Approximately 62% of the shares of Sun common stock outstanding as of the record date for the meeting voted to adopt the agreement.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) reported preliminary results today for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended June 30, 2009.

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today demonstrated the robust performance, price/performance and density of its Open Network Systems with multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. These records highlight the significant infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's Open Network Systems deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage. Sun also announced outstanding performance on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that Blue Sky Studios, a wholly-owned unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, deployed Sun Blade servers and Sun Ultra workstations for the rendering of its new animated feature Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, giving them four times better performance than their previous solution. Blue Sky purchased the Sun Blade X6250 server modules via Sun's Try and Buy program, which allows users to evaluate Sun systems in their own environment for 60 days at no cost and no risk with full technical support, and then buy the systems for up to 40 percent off list price.