Sun Fuels Revolution

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today released significant adoption numbers for the OpenSolaris Storage community that showed over 20% growth in registered members in just six months. In addition, the community now boasts of well over 40 projects that range from a peer to peer distributed storage system to the latest drivers for storage connectivity. This growing and diverse community support for the Open Storage eco-system is comprised of Enterprise, Web 2.0 and high performance computing developers and researchers as well as storage administrators and architects from around the world. Anyone can join the Open Storage revolution by going to: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/

Online music discovery company OurStage (www.ourstage.com) uses these open technologies to prevent vendor lock-in and to help vendors realize greater choice, flexibility and cost savings.

As the first major vendor to recognize this industry shift to open platforms, Sun led the charge and added leading storage services and data protection functions to Solaris ZFS, introduced the world's first hybrid server and storage platform in the Sun Fire(TM) X4500 family and created the world's first Open Storage community. The innovative Solaris ZFS sets Sun apart, enabling developers and enterprise customers to leverage open source file systems and create pools of data that deliver better system performance, flexibility and value.

In just 90 days, we've witnessed significant participation levels from new OpenSolaris Storage community members and contributions of exciting storage projects, showing the world that Open Storage is real and gaining serious steam," said Jim McHugh, vice-president, Solaris marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “By offering cutting edge companies like OurStage an open source operating system that includes Solaris ZFS, Sun continues to help build the community for OpenSolaris while driving adoption of our industry-leading operating system. No other company is better positioned to take advantage of this rising tide.”

In a separate releaseSANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the company nearly doubled shipments of its Sun Ray(TM) thin clients during the fourth quarter of Sun's 2008 fiscal year, compared to the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year. Sun Ray unit shipments are growing faster than the thin client industry at large, underscoring the increased appeal thin client and desktop virtualization solutions are experiencing among businesses and organizations. Contributing to this growth is strong market demand for Sun(TM) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0, which now ships on approximately 25% of Sun Ray units since being introduced in March 2008, in addition to the unparalleled choice Sun Ray thin clients offer customers, enabling them to display Solaris(TM), Windows or Linux desktops on the same device.

Sun Ray virtual display clients, Sun Ray(TM) Sofware and Sun VDI Software 2.0 are key components of Sun's broad desktop virtualization offering, which are a set of core desktop technologies and solutions within Sun's xVM virtualization portfolio. More information on the Sun Ray family of virtual display clients can be found at www.sun.com/sunray.

“As an early innovator in the thin client market with nearly a decade of experience, we're pleased to see the growth Sun Ray clients have experienced during the past year and are encouraged by the growing appeal of desktop virtualization technologies industry-wide. Organizations have truly begun to realize the benefits that thin clients and virtual desktop solutions offer – with respect to cost savings, ease of management, eco advantages and more – to their business,” said Bob Gianni, senior engineering director of desktop systems, Sun. “Sun is investing heavily in desktop virtualization technologies and believes strongly in the market's potential for further growth.”

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