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Sun Surpasses 6 Million Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System Licenses

Posted on: Monday, 30 October 2006, 09:00 CST

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has delivered over 6 million licenses for the free and open Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), the most advanced operating system on the planet, since its release in January 2005. This represents more than the combined shipments of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM AIX and Hewlett Packard HP-UX releases over the same period, and with 97 of the Fortune 100 and 85% of the Fortune 500 companies using Solaris 10 today, it has become the platform of choice for enterprises everywhere.

The increase in enterprise deployments of Solaris 10 has also resulted in significant increases in third party application availability with over 2,900 third party applications currently shipping for the Solaris 10 OS on SPARC(R) platforms, and over 1,800 third party applications shipping on x64/x86 platforms. No comparable operating system from Red Hat, HP, or IBM surpasses the Solaris 10 OS catalogue of third party applications.

This massive momentum combined with the fact that Solaris 10 has delivered 125 price/performance world records and is fully supported on more than 785 systems, including over 710 x64/x86-based systems from top manufacturers including Sun, Dell, HP and IBM, has helped Sun claim more than half of current worldwide UNIX server unit shipments.

"The Solaris 10 OS is increasingly seen as the strategic choice for enterprises and application developers," said Tom Goguen, vice president of Solaris Marketing for Sun Microsystems. "The Solaris 10 OS is increasingly seen as the strategic choice for enterprises and application developers," said Tom Goguen, vice president of Solaris Marketing for Sun Microsystems. "The continuing growth in Solaris 10 OS momentum has driven additional growth in other parts of our business such as the Sun(TM) Cluster business continuity software and N1 management tools, both of which have recently experienced over 100% growth in support from third party application developers."

The Solaris 10 OS is increasingly recognized for unique innovations and features such as Dynamic Tracing, Solaris Containers, Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris ZFS. Recently, Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), a key feature in Solaris 10, was honored with the top prize in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards.

One of the major strategic advantages that Solaris offers Sun customers is that it is both freely available through a no cost licensing policy and completely open-source through the OpenSolaris community. Today there are over 16,400 registered members of OpenSolaris.org, and there have been over 33,800 recorded OpenSolaris downloads. There are 38 registered OpenSolaris user groups, and the OpenSolaris community has made some 220 code contributions to date.

To download Solaris at no cost go to http://sun.com/solaris . About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com/ .

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, OpenSolaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bob Wientzen 303-661-4993 Sun Microsystems, Inc. bob.wientzen@sun.com

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

CONTACT: Bob Wientzen of Sun Microsystems, Inc., +1-303-661-4993, orbob.wientzen@sun.com

Web site: http://sun.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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