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Analisa Schelle
Ogilvy Public Relations for Sun
(415) 677-2721
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B+H Photo
B+H Photo, the world's largest high-end professional photo , video and
audio company, selected Sun StorEdge(TM) 9985 systems to power its rapidly
growing Internet business.

Harrods
Harrods, the world famous London department store, selected the Sun Java
Integration Suite to support and enhance its growing multi-channel retail
operations .

The CRN Channel Champions study measures overall business and technology
integrator perceptions of vendor products and services in 28 categories.

A manufacturer of UNIX-based computers ranging from desktop systems to very high-end servers.

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5 is a benchmark for measuring the throughput and response
times of an OLTP database workload.

Scripps Florida
Scripps Florida selected Sun for a stable, scalable and cost-effective
compute cluster solution to support bio-research initiatives . As North America's
premier provider of services in highway transportation of bulk commodities,
Trimac knows a thing or two about safe storage and superior delivery service. Trimac has
invested in a highly scalable and stable system built on Sun's SPARC-powered
V440 and V240 servers, running Solaris, and a StorEdge 9990 System for secure,
highly available information storage.

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In selecting UltraSPARC IV Sun Fire V890 servers attached to Sun
StorEdge(TM) 6130 arrays, Accor can more easily and cost -effectively gather
the accountability of more than 4000 hotels, share corporate applications
worldwide , unify financial reporting systems, optimize and reduce the time to
publish financial results. The recent investment in Sun storage solutions
builds on a more than 10-year relationship between Sun and B+H Photo.

The Trimac Group
The Trimac Group of companies are in the business of providing truck
transportation and related distribution and management services. Building on investments in Sun technology made in 2003, the award
winning research team has commenced a second phase of their IT system
expansion with the acquisition of Sun Fire V40z and X4100 servers as well as
Sun StorEdge 6130 and 6920 arrays running on Solaris OS.

IBM earned top honors in Notebooks, Advanced Desktops & Workstations,
Databases (tie), Application Integration Middleware, Systems & Network
Management , Storage Management Software, Storage Area Network Arrays,
Network Attached Storage Appliances, Storage Backup Subsystems, Low End
Servers and High End Servers.com) is a leading integrated media company
providing essential information and marketing services to the entire
technology spectrum-the builders , sellers and users of technology
worldwide.

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Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun."
Recent customers worldwide that have signed with Sun include:

Abacus
Abacus, the leading provider of cooperative data, data management and
analytical services for direct marketing, purchased three UltraSPARC(R) IV+
Sun Fire V490 servers, three Sun Fire V440 servers and two Sun Fire V240
servers, and three Sun Fire V20z servers each with two dual -core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors. The company helps customers to meet the largest challenges in
strategic and financial planning, energy market and transmission analysis,
energy trading, risk management , as well as retail and wholesale energy market
operations. Ltd. The new system, consisting of Sun Fire V440,
V240, V480 servers, a Sun StorEdge 3510 SAN and L25 Tape Drive offers
high-performance and better utilization of data storage resources for Service
New Brunswick's one-stop approach to providing more than 200 federal,
provincial and municipal government services.

Media Contact:
Mark Richardson
Phone: 650-257-4038
email: mark.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Carrie Kasten
Sun Microsystems, Inc. The new x64
implementation will help facilitate future growth, reduce operating costs and
increase the University of Alberta's ability to develop research tools
necessary for retaining its position among the top six international leaders
in nanotechnology research.

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(Nasdaq: SUNW) profiled some of
the hundreds of new and current customers that chose Sun products in its
fiscal second quarter .

American Express
American Express has chosen Sun to provide a new integrated software
environment for critical applications in its global IT infrastructure.

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Videotron ltee, an integrated communications company wholly owned by
Quebecor Media Inc.

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This head-to-head comparison indicates the
performance advantages of the feature-rich Solaris 10 OS over Red Hat Linux,
which still suffers from scalability problems on heavy workloads.

Performance Results
System Processor OS Peak tpmM TpmM at 2100
connections

Sun Fire V440 1.6 Ghz Solaris 10 103,706 tpmM 103,706 tpmM
UltraSPARC IIIi

Dell 6650 3.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Sun Fire, Solaris, and The
Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. The Company Experienced an Up-Tick in Customer Demand Resulting from New
Products Delivered to Market in Past Two Quarters

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd . Touting the scalability, stability,
performance and openness of the Sun Fire servers, Ping An selected Sun to help
provide financial services including life insurance, property insurance,
banking and trusts to its customers. The new compute
cluster is comprised of Sun Fire(TM) V20z and V40z servers running Sun N1(TM)
Grid Engine and attached to Sun StorEdge 3510(TM) FC arrays. The company is an
innovative IT adopter aiming to provide integrated supply chain services in
the IT industry. By studying and
comparing the structure and function of healthy and unhealthy brains, LONI's
seeks to better understand brain development and the differences between
healthy and diseased brains.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Similar head-to-head testing using the popular
commercial RDBMS showed an even more dramatic advantage for SPARC(R) and
Solaris over Xeon and Linux. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 was used in these tests (2.com. The
agreement includes the purchase of licensing subscriptions , services and
support for the Sun Java Enterprise System, growing the total number of
subscribers to significantly over one million and continuing Sun's momentum in
financial services. Through Sun Preventive Services, Emergis can reduce the cost and
complexity of its Business Critical data center including products from Sun's
Storage and Server groups such as a vast array of SunFire and Netra Servers,
Mid-range servers, as well as Sun's Enterprise servers. To address these challenges,
Harrods is expanding its use of information technology, and has selected a
suite of products from Sun that will help to preserve its existing IT
investments while enhancing business agility and improving customer
experience. The system will be based on Sun Fire x64 servers with 10,480 AMD
Opteron processor cores -- totaling more than 50 trillion floating point
operations per second.com

IBM
won the Overall Channel Criteria Champion award for having the highest
average channel satisfaction scores in the survey.

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5 benchmark. Cost/performance and heat and power
savings were crucial to NewEnergy Associates in its latest decision to buy Sun
technology. Sun also
provided Scripps Florida with onsite implementation services, support services
and new systems' training. Purchasing a nine million dollar services agreement, the major
service provider of the German savings banks feels confident its hardware and
software is optimized for its data center to help reduce total cost of
ownership. "The CRN Channel Champions study is a premier
resource for solution providers to use throughout the year to evaluate
vendors and programs," said Dan Dignam, publisher, CRN.

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"In the last few years we've completely overhauled our product line and
approach to the marketplace ," said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and
chief operating officer. "Innovation is the fuel that drives competitive
advantage and we'll continue to deliver innovative new products and business
models that give our customers the edge they need to win.

Equifax
Equifax, a global information services technology company, has selected
Sun Microsystems to streamline compliance functionalities and software
licensing.

Guangdong Mobile Communication Corporation
Guangdong Mobile Communication Corporation (GMCC) is the largest
provincial level mobile communication carrier in China.

Synnex Technology International Corporation
Synnex Technology International Corporation is the largest 3C retailer in
Asia Pacific with annual revenues over US$4 billion in 2005. Currently they have operation centers in 16 countries.

University of California, Los Angeles
The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA (LONI) has selected Sun systems,
software and services as the computational infrastructure for its
comprehensive mapping of brain structure and function.
The survey is the largest and broadest-based technology integrator market
study in the industry.com.

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Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. In
addition to providing outstanding performance, the Sun solution was also
chosen for the benefits it delivers in power consumption, floor space,
cooling, acquisition and support costs.

Service New Brunswick
Service New Brunswick, the provincial government's chief provider of
front-line services to the public has chosen Sun Microsystems solutions to
address their need for better enterprise back-up and to enhance their
e-Government service delivery.

PRESS RELEASE IBM Named 2005 CRN Channel Champion

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This
benchmark is also used to show the performance of competitive systems under
heavy load. The benchmark has two performance metrics: Throughput in tpmM
(Medium transactions per minute) and average medium response time in seconds.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Demonstrating continued market momentum in core
industries such as financial services and telecommunications, customers are
rapidly adopting the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), Sun Java(TM)
Enterprise System , Sun storage products, and Sun's comprehensive line of
industry-standard Sun Fire(TM) servers. Additionally , American Express plans to use the Solaris OS
as a platform supporting this new integrated software environment.

Northwestern University
Northwestern University selected Sun Microsystems to replace a homegrown
identity management system with limited capabilities. They also anticipate significant
advantages from the virtualization capabilities of Solaris 10 OS.
About Sun Microsystems , Inc.
IBM was named a 2005 CRN Channel Champion in 11
categories and selected as the Overall Channel Criteria Champion at an
awards ceremony in New Orleans on March 8.ibm.

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Benchmark Results Demonstrate Sun Fire v440 Server and Solaris 10 Speed and
Performance Leadership

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries.schelle@ogilvypr. Ltd. Bird
has successfully ported Sun's OI in the high end handsets and by the means of
JLE support, Bird is establishing her own Java technology know-how and Java
technical team, to research and develop new Java-enabled mobile solutions, and
offer high quality and highly cost-effective Java technology mobile phones to
users all over China and the world today. The new
infrastructure, based on Solaris 10 OS supports a hybrid electronic trading
environment running Sun Fire servers and it is designed to handle more than
120,000 messages per second while keeping cooling costs down., has substantially expanded its existing Sun Fire server
infrastructure to continue growing its position as the leading provider of
high-speed Internet access in the Quebec market.

"Business Partners have told us that
consistency and predictability are essential to help them run successful
businesses, and that's what IBM's PartnerWorld program delivers.

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6GHz with Solaris 10 provided 8% higher peak
performance than a Dell 6650 Xeon 3.
When the load increased to supporting 2,100 connections, the performance
of the Sun Fire V440 server running Solaris using Sun StorEdge (TM) 6120 FC
disk arrays excelled to 52% faster than the Dell 6650 Linux system with a much
better response time.

The Province of Nova Scotia
The Province of Nova Scotia added Sun's newest server, the Sun Fire T2000
running the Solaris 10 OS, to its enterprise. Currently supplying cable
modem and dial-up services to 607,000 subscribers, the integration of Sun Fire
X4200, V490 and V890 servers into a system currently running Sun Java
Communications Express 6. The CRN Channel Champion's
award program, now in its 15th year, is sponsored by CMP Media's CRN,
provider of vital information for VARs and technology integrators. CRN can be
found on the Web at www. Its diverse products and services
include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct
marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences,
and custom publishing.

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This workload was based on customer
applications and has a mix of light-weight and heavy-weight transactions.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc. GMCC selected two
SE9990, three SF6900, five SF4900, 21 sets of 490, one L180, one B2000, one
440, CS integration service, and six years of SunSpectrum Gold(SM ) service to
implement the Datacenter OA and Portal Project. When fully implemented, Service
New Brunswick will reduce operational and IT maintenance costs and complement
their Sun-based solution with Sun Premium and Gold Spectrum Services. LONI has already made significant advances in
understanding Alzheimer's, AIDS and brain development.com . The IBM product families represented by
these winning awards include ThinkPad*, ThinkCentre*, DB2*, WebSphere*,
Tivoli*, TotalStorage*, and eServer* xSeries *, iSeries* and pSeries*."

"We are honored that the solution provider community selected IBM to win a
record number of Channel Champion awards," said Donn Atkins, general
manager, IBM Global Business Partners.

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(Nasdaq: SUNW) today reconfirmed that Sun Fire(TM) V440 servers running
Solaris (TM) 10 Operating System (OS) prove to be a winning combination based
on results achieved on the iGen_OLTP_v1 . to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work. B+H
expects the Sun StorEdge Systems to be a cornerstone to their data-centric
enterprise compute environment and "Always On" Internet presence.
As the leading mobile handset manufacturer in China, Ningbo Bird Co. (Ping An), one of the
most comprehensive financial entities in China, is basing its Data Center
Expansion Project on Sun Microsystems. Using Sun N1(TM) System Manager and Sun N1 Grid Engine
software, the system will be provisioned to support the Solaris 10 Operating
System as well as Linux operating environment.
When it was time to upgrade its technology infrastructure, the company chose
to consolidate on Sun servers, storage, software and services.

Sun Professional Services is working
closely with Trimac to help design, deploy and manage the new system. "IBM has
demonstrated that it delivers high quality solutions and has many satisfied
business partners.com/partnerworld

About CRN

CRN provides Solution Providers and Technology Integrators with the crucial
information and analysis they need to drive their company's sales.

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is cooperating with Sun in an overall sphere of Java(TM) ME technology. The compute cluster is running multiple
bio-research tools and applications for more than 100 researchers at the
Florida-based research organization. The grid-based supercomputer
plans to expand to more than 100 teraFLOPS by its operation in Spring 2006 and
is moving toward becoming one of the five largest supercomputers in the world
as ranked by Top 500 in Summer 2006. Since its inception in 1982, a singular
vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems,
Inc.

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All SPARC
trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SPARC International, Inc. The deployment of the Sun Java
Enterprise System will enable Equifax to focus more on key business
initiatives such as a new B2B portal that leverages its retail, commercial and
credit applications. Harrods, like many retailers today, is faced with the challenge of
creating a more efficient business model that both improves customer service
and reduces the cost of ongoing operations. Recently, NewEnergy added to its Solaris 10 implementation and
purchased Sun Fire X4100 and X4200s servers to augment its Grid computing
calculation/processing power, and add virtualized developer workstations and
servers for development and testing. LONI is using over 300
Sun Fire V20z servers running the Solaris 10 OS, the Sun N1 GridEngine and Sun
Control.sun.crn.cmp.

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Sun Fire Servers and Solaris 10 Prove to be a Winning Combination Out Performs Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Abacus will run its own large Data Warehousing
application that builds lists for direct marketing activities, and will
leverage Sun services to help manage its entire data center.

Bosch Group
Bosch Group, the leading global manufacturer of automotive and industrial
technology, consumer goods, and building technology, licensed Sun Identity
Manager including Support Services for a large number of accounts. Equifax will implement Java Enterprise System and the Sun Java
Identity Management Suite to help the company simplify how it manages
infrastructure software assets and related services. The Sun solution was chosen to
provide scalability, stability, performance and openness necessary for this
project. Leveraging Solaris 10
OS, Sun Fire V210z servers and the Java Enterprise System including Sun Java
Identity Manager and Sun Java Access Manager, Northwestern University can
roll-out new, single sign-on and identity management that is flexible,
affordable and compatible with the standards of its numerous academic and
administrative applications. The system delivers flexibility
in addressing the province's dramatic growth in SAP and Oracle(R) clients and
application implementations for human resources and business warehousing. This
is a strategic win for Sun Taiwan as Synnex was originally the major account
and business partner of HP. The HPCC
selected the servers for their advanced cooling capabilities , smaller form
factor, energy efficiency and superior price/performance. As an
advocate for and voice of the Channel, Solution Providers turn to CRN first
for immediate information. With more than 20 years of experience, CRN is
the most trusted source for 117,000 channel professionals.

About CMP Media LLC

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Contact: allpress@sun.

Ningbo Bird Co.

The University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC) Center for High-Performance
Computing and Communications (HPCC) added 360 of Sun's dual-core Sun Fire V20z
x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers to its powerful supercomputer cluster.
Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://www.

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Philadelphia Stock Exchange
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange purchased Sun Microsystems technologies to
support their new Electronic Options Trading System (PHLX XL). The company's
innovative use of IT in bulk trucking provides value added services to
customers and supports efficient internal processes. Driven by a steady
desire to strengthen the performance and capability of its supercomputing
server cluster , which is currently ranked as the 24th-fastest supercomputer in
the world on the Top500 list, the recent addition of the Sun Fire V20z server
increased USC's HPCC system total number of compute nodes from 1,716 to 1,830. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of
industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.richardson@sun. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely
positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions
tailored to meet their individual needs.

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About IBM PartnerWorld

PartnerWorld is a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales
resources , training, certification and technical support to help create new
revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners.

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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Accor Group
Accor Group, a European leader and one of the world's largest groups in
travel, tourism and corporate services , chose Sun Microsystems to help
consolidate and streamline IT operations supporting 140,000 people in 140
countries. We will
continue to use the feedback they give us to build upon our strengths ,
enhance our capabilities, and offer the best Business Partner program in
the industry. For more
information on teaming with IBM, please visit
http://www.

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Hundreds of Global Customers Choose Sun Microsystems in Fiscal Second Quarter

NewEnergy Associates
NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company, provides software, energy
business solutions, and industry expertise to more than 200 clients throughout
the world. The province
is currently running SAP and Oracle on a Sun Fire 15K(TM).2 equips Videotron with new capacity for growth
customer base expansion.

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quarterly earnings call Sun Microsystems Inc.

Emergis
Emergis , a North American leader in powering eBusiness transactions,
selected Sun(TM) Microsystems to help manage the hundreds of servers in its
data center. With the Java Enterprise
System, Equifax gains access to a suite of open, enterprise infrastructure
solutions that provide increased agility, security and scalability to help
drive faster service development and delivery. Ping An also purchased five years of
SunSpectrum Gold Service Plan. The Sun Solution
Center for High Performance Computing was engaged to conduct benchmark tests
with customer applications, and the Sun Customer Ready Systems Program to
pre-load, -integrate, and -test the solution prior to shipment.

Sparkassen -Informatik (SI)
Sparkassen-Informatik (SI) chose Sun Microsystems to maximize its IT
investments .

Tokyo Institute of Technology
One of the world's leading technical institutes, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, is creating Japan's largest supercomputer on Sun technology to
help its science and engineering researchers dramatically increase their
productivity.

University of Alberta, Faculty of Engineering
Sun Fire Server and StorEdge technologies are continuing to shape
nanotechnology research being conducted by University of Alberta's Faculty of
Engineering .

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