Ecora Announces New HIPAA Report Pack with Release of Enterprise Auditor 3.6

These HIPAA security specific reports include access control, audit
control , internal policy compliance, and change monitoring.
"Sun has once again leapfrogged the competition , establishing a five year
lead over any other processor architecture in the world," said Jonathan
Schwartz, president and COO, Sun Microsystems, Inc. By open
sourcing the UltraSPARC T1 code, Sun is removing the barriers to adoption and
opening the innovation of the UltraSPARC T1 platform to other applications,
systems designers and operating systems.1 SP5 achieved a world
record SPECweb2005 and demonstrated a 1.(1)
-- Sun Fire T2000 server using BEA WebLogic Server was 1 .

The new Web-Tier Consolidation Program allows customers to:
-- Reduce power and space requirements as much as 95 percent by
consolidating web infrastructure to Sun Fire CoolThreads servers;
-- Consolidate up to 10 Xeon servers with just one Sun Fire CoolThreads
server;
-- Deliver more secure and more agile web services;
-- Run multiple web applications on one Sun system with Solaris 10
Containers, reducing the complexity of managing hundreds of thousands
of applications, multiple servers and multiple operating systems;
-- Take advantage of the most extensive set of built-in security features
and the fastest networking stack on any operating system available
today for delivering mission-critical web applications . IBM eServer p5
550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. IBM eServer Xseries x346 (2 cores, 2
chips ) 4348 SPECweb2005.spec.

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"Designed
based on our customers' experience with HIPAA security standards and
administrative safeguards and our extensive research of 45 CFR Part
164, the new HIPAA Report Pack for Enterprise Auditor deliver required
reports for validation to the HIPAA security rule--providing
significant time and resource savings. This includes
Windows servers and workstations, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat
Linux, Novell NetWare, Novell Directory Services, Cisco, MS-SQL,
Exchange , Lotus Domino, IIS, Active Directory, Citrix, and Oracle.

New reports for Citrix Presentation Server 3.
"We are ecstatic with the cost, throughput performance and power economics
of the Sun Fire T2000 servers," said Larry Lozon, vice-president of datacenter
services, EDS. Additional information on the Sun
Java System Portal Server 7 will be communicated in the coming days .
(2) SPECjAppServer2004 Sun Fire T2000 with BEA (8 cores, 1 chip) 615.97 Price per User, 20 ,108 NotesMark, 932ms avg rt; 8-way (8-core) IBM
System p5 570 (1. Results as of 12/2/05 on
http: //www. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture
developed by Sun Microsystems , Inc.

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Customers Find Big Performance Boost Without Power Crunch Compromise
Over 100 customers have beta tested Sun's new systems over the past six
months with staggering results in performance and efficiency.7x performance advantage over
the 4-way IBM eServer p5 550 with 4.6GHz Itanium2-based HP rx4600
server on the dual node SPECjAppServer2004.
-- Sun Fire T1000 beats the performance of the Dell SC1425 by over 2x,
while consuming half the power .(4) Surprisingly, HP and Fujitsu have
not published results on this important new benchmark that demonstrates
Java server performance. Application price/performance includes hardware
+ software costs for the application server tier, which is then divided by the
JOPS.notesbench .

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For more information about Ecora
Software, visit www. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at sun.org. Sun disclaims any obligation and does not undertake
to update or revise the forward-looking statements in this press release.

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PORTSMOUTH, N. For additional information contact Ecora at 877-92ecora
(923-2672), e-mail www.6 GHz Servers Provide Optimum Platform for More Than Three Million Solaris
10 OS Registered Licenses

NEW YORK, Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4
(NC05Q4) -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. During our initial testing, we experienced a 50 percent
decrease in server power consumption.3x higher performance per watt
while occupying half the space.2 PE) achieved world record price/performance
on the application tier beating a 4-way 1. Sun Java System AS 8.com/presskits/networkcomputing05q4 / .

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.org as of 12/2/05. in the United States and other
countries .

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Based on the 9.3-inch deep server with
extensive internal redundancy capabilities to offer maximum uptime for
application services and web-tier consolidation projects. On IBM's own benchmark the Sun Fire T2000 beats the
price/performance of the POWER5+ based IBM p5 p550Q by 27 percent.org
(4) SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 63,378 bops submitted,
IBM eServer p5 550 (2 chips, 4 cores, 4-way) 61,789 bops, Dell PowerEdge
SC1425 (2 chips, 2 cores, 2-way) 24,208 bops .

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"Because configuration inconsistencies create security risks, one
of the key elements of the HIPAA security standard is maintaining up
to date configuration documentation of servers, workstations , and
applications," said Scott Carpenter, product manager, Ecora. Enterprise Auditor for Windows Servers and
Enterprise Auditor for Unix/Linux Servers are priced at $995 per
server. "Given the extreme performance increase and low power consumption of our
new Sun Fire servers, any company that has a web, application or database
server farm based on Intel Xeon servers needs to test the Sun Fire T1000 or
T2000 servers immediately and see the unmatched price/performance and energy
savings for themselves. "As you can imagine, reducing power consumption in our data
centers is crucial. We have been so impressed with all of our findings that we
are currently underway with plans of our own to migrate our internal website
onto T2000s, which will enable us to be more eco-responsible as well.8GHz Xeon-based
IBM eServer xSeries x346 while delivering 4.6x faster than
the 2.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age.spec.

This category attempts to list the wide and ever-increasing variety of web-based discussion forum server software.

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Offers cost-effective , repeatable, and sustainable solution to
address HIPAA technical and administrative safeguards

Ecora, the leader in change and configuration management software
solutions supporting IT control , compliance, and security, today
announced the release of Enterprise Auditor version 3.
"The manual process of preparing for a HIPAA security audit is
time consuming, resource intensive, and prohibits sustainability, said
Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of Ecora. Cisco is a
registered trademark of Cisco Systems. list, priced
at or below "industry-standard" servers from IBM, HP or Dell.8GHz dual -core IBM x346.

Try It Before You Buy It
Given the high level of interest in these new breakthrough systems, Sun is
now offering the industry's largest "Try and Buy" program that enables
customers and ISV partners to test out a new Sun Fire T1000 or T2000 server
running the highly threaded UltraSPARC T1 processor free of charge for 60
days, with the option to purchase the system . Sun uses the
proven program to work with customers to design a consolidated architecture
and drive hard savings in power, cooling and facilities costs.
415-786-3451
alex.plant@sun .
Calculations are made based on the bill of materials supplied with the
benchmark result.5.

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The requirements of the HIPAA security rule are organized
into three categories, two of which (administrative and technical
safeguards) require the selection, development, use of, and validation
of IT controls .0 - 166 new
built-in reports that deliver detailed configuration
information for all Citrix areas including administration
privileges, applications, farm, licenses, servers , sessions,
printers, user policies, and resource management. Air France, EDS and Other Customers Choose New Systems for Fivefold
Performance Increase - 1/5 the Power Consumption Versus IBM, Dell and HP - New
9." The nucleus of these new
systems is the UltraSPARC T1 processor.6GHz Itanium2-based HP rx4600 server on
the dual node SPECjAppServer2004. The Sun Fire T2000 achieved the
overall performance world record on all two node results. The Sun Fire T1000
can be ordered now for delivery in March 2006.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM ) -- guides Sun in
the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets.

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Easy to set up and use, Enterprise Auditor quickly discovers
servers and workstation to automatically collect the most detailed
configuration settings on a scheduled basis to a centralized,
consolidated database. Its eight cores and massively-threaded
design has been developed over the past three years and is significantly more
advanced than competing Intel Xeon or IBM POWER processors.S.1X higher performance per
watt. This new release of the Sun Java System Portal Server allows
users to easily create interactive communities of users and services,
building "community" portals populated with collaborative content
including RSS feeds, Blogs and Wikis. To get started,
simply go to: sun.com/webtierconsolidation/.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Alex Plant
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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The Sun Fire T2000
ships six or eight processor cores while the Sun Fire T2000 ships with four,
six or eight processor cores .

The Right Solution for Today's Maxed-Out Datacenters
According to an IDC Insight , by 2009, more than 14 million servers will be
installed in the U.3X faster than
the performance of a 4-way 1.2
Performance Edition (AS 8. For more information, please go
to: http://www . list when a System Ready Plan is purchased with the server.3, Lotus Domino 7. Please also refer to Sun's periodic
reports that are filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission , including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 2005 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended September 25, 2005.

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There's more to Enterprise Auditor 3.

Pricing and Availability

The Ecora Enterprise Auditor suite with the new HIPAA Report Pack
is available immediately.6 GHz UltraSPARC(R) T1(TM) processor, code named Niagara, the
new server family has achieved seven world-record benchmarks and is setting a
new industry standard for performance, energy and space efficiency with as
little as half the power and space of competing systems. In
addition, Sun has more than twice the price/performance advantage and a
nine percent performance advantage over the POWER5 based IBM p5 570
server. These forward -looking statements involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and that
may cause actual results to differ materially.

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its new HIPAA Report Pack, a collection of more than 150 pre-built
report definitions that address the technical and administrative
safeguards of the HIPAA security standard. in the United States and other countries .
The massively-threaded new servers allow customers to take advantage of
the new CoolThreads technology without having to rewrite applications.
"The continued build-out of the Internet has resulted in massive,
inefficient server farms that run too hot and take up too much space," said
David Yen, executive vice president, Scalable Systems Group, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.64
JOPS@Standard , HP rx4600 (4 cores, 4 chip) 471.3, 17,400
R6iNotes users, $10. in the United States and other countries .

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Additional new features of Enterprise Auditor 3. Both ship with up to 32 threads -- an industry
first -- each core is able to handle four "threads. When
customers choose the Sun Fire T1000 or T2000 systems with a Full Protection
Plan, they get more than just a server, they receive the world 's most advanced
operating system, Solaris 10, and a Full Protection Plan that goes far beyond
basic break/fix warranty programs.71 JOPS@Standard.5 GHz), 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.spec.

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, an increase of more than 50 percent above current
levels (Source, IDC, "Server Power Consumption Reemerges as a Critical Cost
Factor in Datacenters," Doc #33937, August 2005).(2)
-- Sun Fire T2000 server using Sun Java(TM) System Application Server 8.28 JOPS@Standard, Sun Fire
T2000 with SJSAS (8 cores, 1 chip ) 436.

Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Sun's
beliefs and expectations regarding the shipping schedule for its Sun Fire
T1000 servers .

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The primary objective of the HIPAA security rule is to protect the
confidentiality, integrity , and availability of electronic protected
health information (ePHI) when it is stored, maintained , and
transmitted. Ecora's solutions enhance efficiency and reduce
the costs associated with IT compliance, business continuity, and
vulnerability assessment while providing the means to monitor change
and plan for recovery.)
The new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 systems start at $2,995 U .sun.0, 24,000 R6iNotes users,
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Solaris is a trademark of Sun
Microsystems, Inc . The new
systems are also the first servers designed from the ground up for Internet
workloads and for running current and next-generation web, application and
distributed database systems. Sun guarantees binary compatibility on the
Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) across all supported systems including the
new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. "We're delivering the
world's most energy efficient computers and proving we can connect the planet
without torching it or killing off economic opportunity.5x higher
performance in 4x less space and at 3. Sun Fire T1000 prices begin at
$2,995 U.S.
For more information related to all of Sun's NC05Q4 announcements, as well
as those above, go to Sun's online press kit at
http://www.com.com

NOTE: SPEC, SPECweb, SPECjbb, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation . Results from
http://www.3,Lotus Domino 6. More info http://www.

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IBM p5 550 4-way on the SPECjbb2005 and was more than 1. list when a System Ready Plan is
purchased with the server.org as of 12/02/2005.

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The latest version of Enterprise Auditor offers an unmatched set
of modules that collect hundreds of configuration settings
specifically for each of the platforms it supports.com

About Ecora Software

Ecora provides a total configuration management solution that
automates multi-platform configuration reporting, change monitoring ,
and patch management.

Sun Microsystems Blows Away Industry Standards for Performance With World Record -Setting New Sun Fire T1000 T2000 Servers and CoolThreads Technology

(Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced the
availability of the Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 servers featuring patented
CoolThreads(TM ) technology, the industry's first eight core, 32-thread
processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip. This ensures
that software written for the Solaris 10 OS will run unmodified on all
supported UltraSPARC systems.S. In addition, rising energy
costs and datacenter sprawl have left thousands of customers with overloaded
racks of underutilized, energy-hogging Intel Xeon servers.7x superior performance per watt.
-- Sun Fire T2000 server beats the performance of the 1.

Energy Efficient CoolThreads Servers Replace Power Hungry Intel Xeon
Servers
For customers looking to transition away from power-hungry Intel Xeon
platforms, Sun is offering a Web-Tier Consolidation Program that allows for
easy consolidation onto Sun's new CoolThreads Sun Fire servers.; 8-way (8-core) IBM System p5 550Q (1.

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H. Microsoft and Windows NT are registered trademarks
of the Microsoft Corporation. As the result of more than 10 years of
experience with massively multi-threaded systems, Solaris 10 is the ideal OS
for systems based on multi-core chips. (See related announcement "Sun
Microsystems Launches OpenSPARC Project - Ignites New Open Source Community
for Breakthrough UltraSPARC T1 Processor" for additional details. The Sun Fire
T1000 is a 1U, 19-inch deep server designed for web and network
infrastructures. Sun also powered past Dell and HP on several industry
standard benchmarks (see footnotes for more details):
-- Sun Fire T2000 server using Sun's Web Server 6.2PE is
free for development and deployment.com/emrkt/trycoolthreads.

Industry's Largest Full Protection Plan
Today, Sun also announced its new Full Protection Plan, an integrated
system and services program that offers customers lower total cost of
ownership , reduced budgetary risk and increased system availability. Sun's Full Protection Plan is simple to
purchase , includes the essential, recommended services and offers transparent
three-year pricing that enables customers to predict and better manage their
IT budgets over three years.S.com
650-786-7737
allpress@sun.

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ecora. The Sun Fire T2000 is a 2U, 24. In comparison to the IBM p520 2-way
Power 5+ server, the Sun Fire T1000 server delivered 1.

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also has an updated UNIX/Linux module that automatically collects new
user and group configuration data to address security and IT audits
needs. These 32-way server on a chip systems
will be a major component within our Infrastructure Transformation offering,
providing an ideal landing zone for platform re-hosting and technology refresh
of high throughput workloads. This will lay the foundation for a tech refresh
strategy focused on improving application performance while reducing space and
power consumption. In addition, the Sun Fire T2000
delivers more than 3x the performance of the 2-way 3.

(1) Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001 SPECweb2005.35 per user,
16,061 NotesMark tpm, 400 ms avg rt.

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"When organizations look at
technology for compliance, they need to consider automated solutions
such as our Enterprise Auditor that can cost-effectively help them
maintain compliance in a repeatable and sustainable manner. Ecora supports enterprise platforms from Cisco
Systems, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft , Novell, Oracle, HP, IBM, Sun
Microsystems, Red Hat, and Citrix."
In addition, Sun is actively working with the open source community to
bring Linux and FreeBSD to the UltraSPARC T1 'Niagara' platform.

System Availability and Pricing
The new Sun Fire T2000 server is available immediately. Sun
Fire T2000 prices begin at $7,795 U.sun.
(3) NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire T2000 (1x1200 MHz Niagara, 32GB), 4
partitions, Solaris[TM] 10, Lotus[R] Domino 7.5
GHz), 4 partitions , AIX 5L V5.
All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SPARC International, Inc.

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From the systematically updated and stored
configuration data, users can run hundreds of in-depth report types
including 150 newly added reports contained in the HIPAA Report Pack.

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Sun Beats IBM, HP and Dell in Seven Industry Standard Benchmarks
The CoolThreads servers set seven world records for performance and
price/performance, as demonstrated by a wide variety of industry standard
application benchmarks. It is not an official SPEC metric, but is allowed by SPEC rules.19 Price per User, 14,740 NotesMark, 270ms avg
RT;Comparison of mid-range $/perf.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, Sun Fire ,
CoolThreads, T1 and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. The following important
factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from
those expressed in these forward-looking statements: failure to rapidly and
successfully develop and introduce new products and manage our inventory; and
our reliance on single-source suppliers .

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International language support - Ecora Enterprise Auditor for
Windows can now be installed on and provide reports for
German, Spanish, and Japanese versions of Windows NT
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Novell and Cambridge Technology Partners are registered trademarks
of Novell, Inc. New CoolThreads
technology could enable Air France, EDS, Fiducia and other customers to reduce
the number of servers in their datacenters by as much as 75 percent.
-- Sun Fire T2000 server, equipped with the UltraSPARC T1 processor
achieved overall price/performance leadership on the Lotus R6iNotes
Domino 7 benchmark.(3)
-- In a demonstration addressing the all-important and ubiquitous portal
server workload, the Sun Fire T2000 server beats the performance of the
2GHz Xeon-based Dell 6650 server by running on the new Sun Java System
Portal Server 7, with 6x more logins per second while providing 33
percent capacity headroom on Sun Fire T2000 Server versus zero percent
on Dell.0, 19,000 users, $4.

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