eWeek Labs Chooses Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 OS and Java Studio Creator 2

as Top Products of 2005

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that eWeek Labs
selected the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) and Java(TM) Studio
Creator 2 as two of the "Top Products of 2005" in a December 19, 2005
article. Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet,
has also recently been recognized by other IT publications, such as
InfoWorld and InternetNews.com.

Since its release in January 2005, the Solaris 10 OS has set 49 world
performance benchmarks and granted more than 3.6 million registered
licenses. The software is also available as open source code through
the OpenSolaris(TM) project community. This open development has
contributed to Solaris 10 support on more than 500 SPARC(R), x64 and
x86 platforms from vendors as diverse as Sun, Dell, HP and IBM. Many
publications, customers and partners have recognized the innovative
new operating system, Solaris 10, and its key features such as Solaris
Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) and Solaris Containers, which Jason Brooks of
eWeek calls, "the system's extremely cool... quasi-virtualiziation
functionality."

Brooks also points out that with the Solaris 10 OS, "Sun smartly re-
embraces the x86 architecture, thereby making the operating system
relevant for mainstream servers and workstations. What's more, Sun has
made Solaris 10 freely available, with for-pay services available as
an option-a shot across the bow of Red Hat, which requires service
subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux whether you require them or
not." Solaris 10 is available as a free download. Customers can
purchase competitively priced support contracts for Solaris starting
at $120.00 U.S Dollars per year.

More information about the Solaris 10 OS can be found at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

Java Studio Creator 2, which also is part of the Solaris Enterprise
System, is planned for free download and has been hailed by eWeek
editor Peter Coffee as, "the most attractive developer product this
year." Coffee went on to say that Java Studio Creator 2, "... gave me
the kind of drag-and- drop convenience that developers expect... It
not only worked well when used as intended but also resisted my
attempts to confuse its cooperating tools." Coffee also points out
that, "Java Studio Creator 2 gave me the same ease of visual
construction, navigation and linkage among the HTML pages of a Web
application that it did among the UI components of a single page, with
an HTTP monitor tool that sped my investigation and debugging of
behind-the-scenes details. Its data provider components offered me
convenient and powerful abstractions; its lower-level code editing
tools had the kind of power that today's developers demand."

More details on Sun's Java Studio Creator 2 web application
development tool will be announced within the next 30 days. For the
latest information on Java Studio Creator, please go to:
http://developers.sun.com/jscreator .

According to the article, "Every year, the analysts at eWeek Labs
evaluate hundreds of enterprise products. The goal is to provide
technology decision makers with a strong sense of direction as they
navigate IT waters made choppy by hype, regulatory mandates, security
concerns, competitive issues, budgetary and personnel constraints and,
well, the list goes on and on. This year we found much to recommend,
as vendors continue to innovate and to listen to their customers' (and
potential customers') concerns. Products that pushed the technology
envelope, made it easier to comply with various regulatory mandates
and that heeded enterprises' desire for more interoperable solutions
were just some that rose to the top of the analysts picks for the best
products they evaluated in 2005. Here's to even better things in
2006." For more information and to read the story titled, "eWeek Labs
Picks the Top Products of 2005," please go to:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1901684,00.asp .

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