Sun Microsystems Press Releases

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies (AMEX: ONT) to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the "screens of your life". For more information on the JavaFX family of products visit http://www.javafx.com and for details on On2 video technologies visit http://www.on2.com.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the OpenPortal community today announced a new open source initiative with Liferay, Inc. to develop a common Web presentation platform that incorporates portal and integration technologies from both companies. Developers will now have access to a new, stable, standards-based Web presentation platform. The Sun and Liferay products resulting from this initiative will bring developers simple, lightweight presentation capabilities for GlassFish, Sun's open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server. Free downloads are available at http://www.glassfish.org/portal.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the GlassFish community today announced the immediate availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) with access to a large number of frameworks and applications running on the GlassFish application server. Download the GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 at http://www.GlassFish.org.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the winners of the sixth annual Duke's Choice Awards. The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun. For full details on the winning companies and their applications, please visit: http://www.java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a collaboration with Neil Young and Reprise/Warner Bros. Records for the release of the upcoming Neil Young Archive series on Blu-ray Disc, powered by Java technology. Young will join Sun CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, executive vice president for Software, on stage during the JavaOne conference opening keynote to announce this revolutionary new project and demonstrate some of the interactive features of his upcoming Blu-ray Disc box set. Visit: http://www.java.com or http://www.neilyoung.com for more information.

In his opening keynote at the 13th annual JavaOne developer conference, Rich Green, executive vice president of Software at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) will highlight the role Java technology plays in powering compelling content and rich end-user experiences across all the "screens of your life". Green will provide a new look at the dynamic content, sophisticated services and application mashups made possible by JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content. For more information about Sun's announcements at the JavaOne conference visit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/javaone2008/

In his opening keynote at the annual CommunityOne open source developer conference, Ian Murdock, vice president for Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), will discuss the increasing role communities play in the software industry, how technologies and the companies and communities that create them are increasingly interconnected, and how the power of community can and should play a role in next generation platforms. Additional Sun executives keynoting at the event include Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president, and Rich Green, executive vice president of Software.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced two new offerings that will significantly expand customer choice by providing users with access to Sun's innovative open source software running on the Amazon Web Services platform. For the first time, Sun's OpenSolaris Operating System (OS) will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a Web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud and changes the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. Additionally, Sun is adding premium technical support for its MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2 to its global support and services offerings. To access OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2, register at http://www.sun.com/amazon.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the global OpenSolaris community jointly announced immediate availability of the OpenSolaris Operating System (OS). OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration, delivers an unrivaled development and deployment environment offering the right mix of rapid innovation, platform stability and support to meet business and development needs. Download the OpenSolaris OS now at http://www.opensolaris.com/.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the NetBeans community today announced the immediate availability of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Early Access for PHP scripting language, bringing the power of NetBeans to Web 2.0-style developers. Additionally they announced the general availability of the award-winning NetBeans 6.1 IDE. Download NetBeans now at http://www.netbeans.org.