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New 9.6 GHz servers provide optimum platform beyond current multi-core offerings from Intel, IBM or AMD for more than three million Solaris 10 OS registered licenses.

New York - Dec. 6, 2005 - Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4 (NC05Q4) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the availability of the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers featuring patented CoolThreads technology, the industry's first eight core, 32-thread processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip. Based on the 9.6 GHz UltraSPARC^® T1 processor, code named Niagara, the new server family has achieved seven world-record benchmarks and is setting a new industry standard for performance, energy and space efficiency with as little as half the power and space of competing systems.

The massively-threaded new servers allow customers to take advantage of the new CoolThreads technology without having to rewrite applications. The new systems are also the first servers designed from the ground up for Internet workloads and for running current and next-generation web, application and distributed database systems. Sun guarantees binary compatibility on the Solaris Operating System (OS) across all supported systems including the new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. This ensures that software written for the Solaris 10 OS will run unmodified on all supported UltraSPARC systems. As the result of more than 10 years of experience with massively multi-threaded systems, Solaris 10 is the ideal OS for systems based on multi-core chips.

New Metric to Provide Realistic Assessment of the Space, Wattage and Performance of Datacenter Systems - Including the Breakthrough Sun Fire "CoolThreads" Servers.

New York - Dec. 6, 2005 - Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4 (NC05Q4) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today introduced a new metric for the next generation of the Internet: the new SWaP (space, wattage and performance) metric that assesses the efficiency and effectiveness of rack-optimized server deployments in a datacenter. According to industry analysts, energy consumption and space utilization are among the biggest cost centers and constraints to growth for IT managers. SWaP is the first industry metric to incorporate these characteristics as considerations in evaluating servers in the datacenter.

As customers attempt to expand their server capacity to deliver numerous web and application services, they are running out of power and space in the datacenter. Sun developed SWaP to measure the effectiveness and impact of its rack-optimized servers in a typical datacenter environment in response to the potential constraints on deploying more racks of servers caused by power and space shortages.

Sun closes year of innovation with a major global launch of new server line and products for customers looking to turbocharge their datacenters.

New York - Dec. 6, 2005 - Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4 (NC05Q4) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today made several game changing announcements, including the early arrival of its revolutionary new 9.6 GHz-based, high-performance systems, led by the Sun Fire T1000 and the Sun Fire T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. Continuing its commitment to the developer community and to addressing the growing needs of the next-generation Internet, Sun also announced its intent to open source the company's massively-threaded processor technology to further lower the barriers to innovation and application development.

As part of this global product roll-out, taking place over the next two weeks in more than 25 countries, Sun will showcase unprecedented support for its new server line and UltraSPARC^® T1 microprocessor from a wide range of global technology leaders including Oracle, Symantec and BEA.

Download and use Oracle Database XE, the new Database Server developed by Oracle which is free to develop, deploy, and distribute .

With Oracle Database XE, currently available as a Beta release for Windows and Linux, you can now develop and deploy applications with a powerful, proven, industry-leading infrastructure, and then upgrade when necessary without costly and complex migrations. A production release is scheduled for early 2006.

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint (150MB) database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Oracle Database XE is a great starter database for:

• Developers working on PHP, Java, .NET, and Open Source applications
• DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment
• Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a starter database to distribute free of charge
• Educational institutions and students who need a free database for their curriculum.

This is the press release about the recent launch of the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, now available to download and use free of charge.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.   31-OCT-2005  Oracle today announced Oracle^® Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), a free, starter edition of the world's leading database software. A beta version of Oracle Database XE is available for download today.

This new edition of Oracle Database 10g offers application developers, database administrators (DBAs) and students a free starter database to develop and deploy their applications. It is also freely available for independent software vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors to distribute or embed with their applications and products.

"Oracle Database XE allows developers, DBAs, ISVs and students the opportunity to learn, develop and deploy on the world's leading database software, at no cost," said Thomas Kyte, vice president, Oracle. "No one has to make do anymore; everyone can now start with the best."