´Most Innovative Server´ Awarded to the Sun Fire T2000 Serve

Sun´s Newest Server Based on CoolThreads Technology Wins InfoWorld´s 2006 Technology of the Year Award as ´Most Innovative Server´

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- January 4, 2006 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), today announced that the Sun Fire T2000 server has won the ˝Most Innovative Server˝ award in the Systems category in InfoWorld´s 2006 Technology of the Year honors. The Sun Fire T2000 with unique CoolThreads technology is the industry´s first eight core, 32-thread processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip.

InfoWorld´s annual Technology of the Year Awards identify significant technologies of the past year that promise to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies, and honor the products that best exemplify the implementation of those technologies. ˝Our annual awards highlight progress across nearly the entire enterprise IT landscape,˝ said Steve Fox, InfoWorld´s editor-in-chief. ˝InfoWorld´s 2006 Technology of the Year Award winners represent the best products defining, and often redefining, the role of IT and resulting business impact.˝

Announced on December 6, 2005, Sun Fire T2000 server is the first server designed from the ground up for Internet workloads and for running current and next-generation web, application and distributed database systems. Based on the UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor, code named Niagara, these systems have achieved eight world-record benchmarks and have set a new industry standard for performance, energy and space efficiency with as little as half the power and space of competing systems. Sun guarantees binary compatibility on the Solaris Operating System (OS) across all supported systems including the new Sun Fire T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. This ensures that software written for the Solaris 10 OS will run unmodified on all supported UltraSPARC systems.

More information about Sun Fire T2000 server can be found at: http://www.sun.com/T2000

More information about InfoWorld´s 2006 Technology of the Year Awards can be found at: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/02/01FEtoyawards_1.html?s=feature

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