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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today extended its family of Intel Xeon-based Sun Fire servers with two new offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC), Web 2.0 and back office computing workloads, including the fastest 1U server for HPC workloads and the most expandable 2U enterprise-class system based on Intel Xeon processors. The Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, powered by one or two dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon processors 5200 or 5400 series, run a variety of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Linux and Windows. To take advantage of special offers and promotions for the Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, including Sun's Try and Buy program and Sun Startup Essentials program, visit: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy and http://www.sun.com/startup

Leading Online Advertising Firms Select Sun Microsystems' MySQL Database to Help Power Their Business

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that leading online advertising representation firm Gorilla Nation Media has selected a MySQL Enterprise database subscription to help power its business intelligence platform. With more than 66 million unique visitors per month, Gorilla Nation turned to Sun to help support the exponential growth of its business by improving performance and lowering costs.

Sun xVM VirtualBox Continues Momentum with Recently Inked OEM Agreements

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new multi-year original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech Ltd. to expand the global reach of Sun xVM VirtualBox. OEMs leverage the power of Sun's open source virtualization solution to help deliver highly available, secure and dynamic virtualized offerings. These companies join a growing ecosystem of partners committed to Sun xVM VirtualBox, the industry's most popular cross-platform virtualization software. Sun xVM VirtualBox is available via the OEM program or in a free, open source version at ww.virtualbox.org.

Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server Is Industry's Fastest x86 Java Server

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the new SPECjbb2005 world record score, which beats all other x86 systems on the market. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, equipped with eight Quad-Core AMD Opteron model 8360SE processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), posted an x86 World Record score of 683,542 SPECjbb2005 bops (85,443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM). In the benchmark results, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server demonstrated that it is 53% faster than the Dell PowerEdge R900 and is able to perform 75% more Java business operations than the Dell PowerEdge R905 in the same physical footprint.

Sun Microsystems Announces Availability of Facebook Application for Fans of the 2008 Summer Games

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the release of a new social networking game for Facebook, allowing fans of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games to compete online, with their friends and for their country, by correctly predicting medal winners throughout this summer's events. Sun is not an official sponsor of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Sun Microsystems Reports Final Results for Full Fiscal Year and Fourth Quarter 2008

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) reported results today for its full fiscal year and fourth quarter, which ended June 30, 2008.

Sun Microsystems Announces $1 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion of the company's outstanding common shares.

Sun Microsystems Releases JavaFX Preview

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of the JavaFX Preview release at: http://www.javafx.com. The JavaFX Preview release provides web scripters, designers and Java developers with a preview of the runtime and tools needed to create amazing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on the Java platform. Developers can download the JavaFX Preview release, explore the code samples and tutorials, start writing JavaFX applications and provide their feedback to Sun.

LinkedIn Clicks With Sun Microsystems and MySQL to Power Over 25 Million Professionals Worldwide

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that the largest professional networking site, LinkedIn has selected Sun's MySQL Enterprise database subscription to support the company's rapid growth. With a network of more than 25 million professionals in more than 170 industries from around the globe and many more joining daily, LinkedIn turned to Sun when it recognized the need to increase the speed and performance of the open source database that powers its public Web site.

Sun Microsystems Announces Sun OpenSSO Express

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is the world's largest open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities. For more information and to download OpenSSO, visit: http://wiki.opensso.org.