Sun Showcases Solaris 10 and Industry Leading Servers at Oracle OpenWorld 2006

1 January 1970

At this year's Oracle(R) OpenWorld conference at the Moscone Center, Sun Microsystems will showcase its industry solutions and deep Oracle expertise and highlight the depth and value of its more than 20-year relationship with Oracle via illuminating technical sessions and demonstrations of key Sun technologies.

Sun Speakers At Oracle OpenWorld:

Keynote: Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Time: 10:00 a.m. -- 10:45 a.m.

Location: Moscone North, Hall D

In his Oracle OpenWorld keynote address, titled "Powering the Global Build out," Schwartz will talk about the importance of innovation to win in today's global economy. With over a billion people online and millions joining the network each week, there's a growing opportunity for Sun and the thousands of other companies and attendees that build network-based solutions. Schwartz will also discuss Sun's new virtualized datacenter, Project Blackbox ( http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp ).

Panel Speaker: Bjorn Andersson, Director of HPC and Integrated Systems,

Sun Microsystems

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Time: 4:30 -- 5:30 p.m.

Location: Moscone North Hall

Sun's Andersson will participate in a thought-provoking panel discussion on grid computing, moderated by a renowned industry analyst. He will be joined by industry experts from Oracle, HP, IBM and AMD to share their thoughts and company strategies for grid computing. Customer experiences, pitfalls to avoid, and tangible financial benefits of grid computing will be discussed during this session.

Sun Products and Solutions Showcased At Oracle OpenWorld In Booth 1402

Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 Servers -- Sun's new Sun Fire Servers with CoolThreads(TM) technology deliver breakthrough performance with dramatic space and power efficiency. These servers, with the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System and Sun System Packs, are the industry's fastest and most space and energy efficient systems.

Solaris(TM) 10 OS -- Solaris 10 OS is the world's most advanced operating system with its more than 600 new features such as Dtrace, Predictive Self- Healing, Solaris Containers, and ZFS.

Sun's x64 Servers -- Sun's x64 systems, the industry's broadest, deliver some of the industry's top performance, scalability, power efficiency, manageability, and longevity benefits -- whether you use Solaris, Linux or Windows.

Sun Solutions for Oracle:

BIDW -- Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Solutions on Sun provides the security, flexibility and scalability necessary to meet and exceed the technology requirements for BIDW environments, including some of the world's largest data warehouses.

Optimal Architecture -- Sun's Optimal Architecture for Oracle leverages best of breed products including Sun servers and systems, Solaris 10 OS, and storage -- to provide a smoother integration, better interoperability, and improved business process.

ILM -- This balance of hardware, software and services -- Oracle 10gR2 database supported by Solaris 10 OS, Sun Fire T2000 servers, and Sun StorageTek(TM) services -- manages the physical location of Oracle information throughout its lifecycle to maximize operational efficiency.

Try and Buy -- Want to get your hands on the latest technology from Sun Microsystems? Now you can, at no charge, through Sun's new 'Try and Buy Program'. Whether you're a programmer, a CTO running a large data center, or a Sun reselling partner interested in evaluation units for your customers, the program provides you new Sun products to evaluate and test at no charge for 60 days.

In addition Sun will be having four customer breakout sessions at Oracle OpenWorld. Sun will also be holding twice daily theater presentations in the AMD booth -- located at 702 Moscone South -- showcasing the Sun and Oracle Grid RAC Initiative.

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 .

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, CoolThreads, StorageTek, and the Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.

For More Information:

Stacey Infantino

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

650-786-3115

stacey.infantino@sun.com

Source: prnewswire

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