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Sun CEO Scott McNealy: Sun and Oracle Together Continue to Drive Cost and Complexity Out of the Network

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

SAN FRANCISCO, OracleWorld, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at OracleWorld, Scott McNealy, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems , laid the foundation for the next evolution of the Oracle and Sun relationship. The two companies continue their collaboration to drive cost and complexity out of the data center.

McNealy said that the two companies' complementary strategies in key areas including enterprise grid computing, security high-availability and clustering is already having a positive impact on the industry.

"Oracle and Sun's efforts to reduce the cost and complexity in the network is bringing results big-time," McNealy said. "The alignment of both companies helps produce what customers need to work better and smarter on a leaner budget: open and comprehensive systems; unbreakable security; reduced complexity and increased efficiencies in building, running and evolving the data center."

McNealy said the companies are teaming to help evolve grid computing from simply scientific research to a real commercial enterprise deployment. The Oracle(R) Database10g is the first database technologies to take advantage of the new data center environment that Sun is building with N1(TM). The companies plan to increase overall system performance by utilizing new functionality in Oracle Database.

He offered tangible evidence of the success of the Oracle-Sun relationship. Oracle products are supported across three Sun platforms -- Solaris SPARC(R), Linux and Solaris x86. The entire Oracle stack will be supported on Solaris x86. Oracle Database 10g will be the first to be ported. The two companies are linking developer programs, building one of the largest community of developers. Oracle continues to be Sun's database vendor of choice for key applications.

The leader in open network computing solutions, Sun has gained market share and customer investment by delivering bottom-line value, security, choice and innovation in its network computing systems. Sun is the number one UNIX(R) platform for Oracle and 54 percent of Oracle Database customers use the Sun platform.

About Sun Microsystems

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, N1, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.

For more information:

Kristen Hyland

Sun Microsystems

415-972-0590

Kristen.Hyland@Sun.Com

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