SANTA CLARA, CA February 19, 2008: Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), the industry leader in multicore, multithreaded processors, today announced that it has selected TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) as its foundry partner for processors based on 45-nanometer geometry as well as future generations. Sun partner Texas Instruments (TI) will continue to test and package the 45-nanometer processors.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 4 December 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced a significant performance enhancement to the Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM 5), its industry-leading mainframe virtual technology, that adds 53% more throughput from the initial VSM 5 release in mid-2006. The latest in mainframe storage innovation from Sun, today’s announcement further demonstrates Sun’s commitment to investing in and advancing its entire portfolio of storage and server solutions.

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LAS VEGAS - October 09, 2007: Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today unveiled new UltraSPARC® T2-based servers that deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, increased system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency. The Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers and Sun Blade ™ T6320 modules deliver the compute power of 64 individual systems on a single server or blade and beat competing RISC servers on web-tier tasks by over 4x while maintaining 6x better performance per watt. With the Solaris™ Operating System (OS) and free virtualization technologies built-in, these new Sun servers are the most flexible, cost-effective systems for maximizing system utilization.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server - which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 12, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.’s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems, Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun’s industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 11, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, today announced the latest update to the free and open source Solaris Operating System (OS)-Solaris 10 8/07-to deliver an operating system that is optimized for virtualization, performance and resource management.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 10, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the expansion of its leading storage virtualization portfolio: the introduction of the Sun StorageTek 9985V Enterprise Storage System, concurrent with its technology opartner, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT). Today’s announcement expands the reach of the latest virtualization capabilities into Sun’s high-end storage portfolio and into new storage products that are expected to ship next quarter CY’07.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 10, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the world’s first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be available by the end of the year, powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Building on Sun’s momentum in the x86 server market, both systems enable customers to take advantage of Sun’s unique systems design approach built around the power of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and AMD’s much-anticipated native quad-core processors.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 5, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today previewed the first and only four-socket, 2U quad-core system on the market from a tier-one vendor, powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series that Intel announced separately today. At the processor launch in San Francisco, Intel also endorsed the Solaris Operating System (OS) as the only mission-critical UNIX operating system for the Intel Xeon processor, recommending that OEMs and systems builders show support for the Solaris OS on Xeon-based platforms.

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ARMONK, NY & SANTA CLARA, CA - 16 Aug 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that IBM will distribute the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM’s routes to market.
The agreement announced today is an extension of IBM’s existing support for the Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers, and exemplifies IBM’s commitment to offering clients the widest choice of operating systems available in the industry, as well as Sun’s commitment to offer customers a wider choice of systems for the Solaris platform. IBM and Sun’s support of interoperability via open standards also means that customers will be able to extend their infrastructure by connecting new platforms easily, while preserving their initial investments.

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