Sun Microsystems Named Best Server, Best High-Performance Server and Java IDE Innovator by InfoWorld in Its 2007 Technology of the Year Awards

Sun Fire X4200, Sun Fire X4600 and NetBeans IDE 5.5 Best the Competition;

to Be Named Industry Leaders for 2007

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems,
 Inc. ( SUNW), the creator of Java(TM) technology and Solaris(TM),
 today highlighted three industry leading products -- Sun Fire(TM) X4200,
 Sun Fire X4600 and NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
 5.5 -- as recipients of Technology of the Year Awards by InfoWorld.
 Garnering top honors from the InfoWorld Test Center, Sun is honored with
 prestigious titles: Best Server, Best High-Performance Server and Java IDE
 Innovator.
     InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year Awards are drawn from all
 products tested by the InfoWorld Test Center during 2006. InfoWorld's Test
 Center reviewed the Sun Fire X4200 in February, giving it an 8.7 out of 10
 -- an excellent rating. The review found that the Sun Fire X4200 "is a
 serious server in a seriously well-designed package." In December InfoWorld
 published its review of the Sun Fire X4600 scoring an 8.9 out of 10 --
 another excellent rating. The review calls the Sun Fire X4600 "an
 extraordinarily well- engineered server." Under the Best Hardware category
 the Sun Fire X4200 and X4600 have been awarded with respective titles "Best
 Server" and "Best High-Performance Server" of the Year -- for 2007.
     "Sun packed a whole lot of power into the Sun Fire X4600, which sports
 as many as eight AMD Opteron(TM) dual-core CPUs and 128GB of RAM. The
 plentiful processing and I/O resources make this server a tremendous
 platform for virtualization, HPC, and database applications. And the
 overall server design is impeccable." -- Paul Venezia, InfoWorld, December
 1, 2006.
     Sun also takes a prestigious title from this year's InfoWorld
 Technology Awards in the Application Development category. Securing the
 Java IDE Innovator Award -- Sun's NetBeans 5.5 is called out in InfoWorld's
 2007 report as "an intuitive, well-designed IDE with superb collaboration
 and remarkable features." The review on Sun's NetBeans 5.5 notes, "NetBeans
 already had the most complete collaboration features among IDE platforms.
 This year it added important new modules such as Matisse, the most advanced
 Java software GUI designer available today, and complete support for Java
 Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5. NetBeans is likely all that
 developers of enterprise Java applications will need."
     More information on Sun's award winning technology can be found at:
 http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp and http://developers.sun.com/ .
     InfoWorld's full Technology of the Year report can be found at the
 following link:
 http://akamai.infoworld.com/pdf/special_report/2007/01SRtoy_2007.pdf .
     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, Java, Sun Fire, NetBeans,
 Solaris, and the Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered
 trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other
 countries.
      For More Information:
 
      Stacey Infantino
      Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      650-786-3115
      stacey.infantino@sun.com
 
 

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