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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.

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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."

A security flaw related to the IPSsec VPN protocol may compromise your network and servers, leaving them open to DoS attacks and other malicious attention.

The Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG), a Finnish research team, announced this week they had discovered a security hole in the Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP). The team based in northern Finland is tasked to discover and eliminate software security vulnerabilities.

ISAKMP allows a workstation to authenticate a communicating peer and establish a secure connection in an Internet environment. ISAKMP is an elemental part of IPSec, a set of protocols used for secure exchange of data on the Internet. IPSec, in turn, is used in Virtual Private Networks which many companies use to connect branch offices each other. VPN allow their users to communicate over the public Internet as if they were communicating on a closed and secure private network. Beside Virtual Private Networks, IPSec support is included in some operating system and firewall products. The flaw now discovered may expose these technologies to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and other malicious attention.

cPanel's Exim based mail delivery will (optionally) replace MBOX mail storage format with qmail's MAILDIR format, to speed things up in mail servers.

Houston, Texas - November 9, 2005 - cPanel, a leading Web Hosting Control Panel Software provider, officially announced their plans to migrate their products to support maildir mail storage format. Maildir mail storage format was originally implemented on qmail to address the shortcomings of mbox. Maildir mail storage speeds up the functionality of the mail server and reduces memory usage due to mail related processes. Keep reading for more information about mbox vs. maildir.

If users have any concerns about migrating their servers to maildir format, we recommend contacting cPanel support to address any concerns they may have. As a result of this conversion, Neomail will not function and it is recommended that server administrators migrate their clients to either SquirrelMail or Horde before converting to maildir format. Please note that custom configurations related to email may be affected by this change.

New certification program for add-on scripts by third party software providers ensures seamless integration with cPanel and update compatibility.

Houston, Texas - November 9, 2005 - cPanel, a leading Web Hosting Control Panel Software provider, officially announced their cPanel Certified add on script certification program. cPanel Certified allows third party software providers to maintain a programming relationship with cPanel to ensure that their software can be used on any cPanel server without compatibility problems. It also allows developers to get information about changes to cPanel's interface to ensure that their software can be updated for compatibility with any changes.

"We are very excited about giving third party developers a chance to keep up with our ever evolving software platform, " said David Koston, Operations Manager at cPanel. "This program will allow developers to keep ahead of our changes and provide the support their customers need".

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has a quad-core server processor on its road map and promised to upgrade its software investments.

A recent article on PCWorld published some comments from Phil Hester (vice president and chief technology officer) during a local event at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. He announced that AMD will introduce a new core design in its Opteron line of microprocessors by 2007 with a similar core used by the company's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors.

The new Opteron processor will incorporate four cores connected together by a new version of the Hypertransport interconnect technology, and will support DDR3, he said at the event, which provides financial analysts and media with a "State of AMD" address that covers the company's technology, customers, and financial health.

Research and Markets, a leading market research firm announced earlier this year a study of 387 pages for prospects of server market from 2005 to 2011.

The key topics of the research are the Next Generation Of IT Infrastructure, Real-Time IT Infrastructure, IT Department Focus, Control Over The IT Department and Server Pricing. Companies included on the paper are IBM, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Egenera, Fujitsu, Steel Eye, NEC, Tatung Science and Technology, Hitachi Ltd, F5 Networks, RLX, Technologies, Sun Microsystems and Topspin.

Bottom line, the server market is anticipated to grow from $49.8 billion in shipments in 2004 to $81 billion shipments in 2011, that's close to double current market numbers. IBM led worldwide server shipments measured in dollars with shares 29% in 2004, in a market that totaled $49.8 billion in 2004 up from $44.6 billion in 2003. Hewlett Packard is number two in the blade sever market with 26% market share participation in dollars in 2004.

Press release for the latest update of Exim Pro for Windows.

Sunnyvale, California - November 21, 2005 - Moderngigabyte, LLC, the dominant automated billing solution for the hosting industry, and Ensim Corporation, a leader in service enablement and automation software solutions, today announced that support for Ensim Pro for Windows 4.0 has been added to ModernBill 4.3.3. This integration will give Ensim Pro for Windows customers an affordable billing and order management solution for managing the hosting businesses.

Ensim Pro is the leading native Windows-based control panel available, providing the most robust hosting automation solution to deploy, configure and manage commercial-quality Web sites for shared and dedicated offerings. This latest integration provides its customers with increased flexibility and cost savings.

Advanced Internet Technologies (AIT) announced cheap Celeron and Pentium dedicated servers for as low as $39.95 and $49,95.

For a limited time only and while their supplies last, AIT, one of the largest web hosting providers in the United States with over 210,000 domains worldwide, is offering Pentium or Celeron based servers along with 512 MB of RAM, 40GB of disk space and 2,000 GB of data transfer. The package also includes redundant OC-3 connectivity, multiple IP addresses, root access and server-specific firewalls.

The inventory is granted here on a first come first serve basis. This is a good oportunity for those who want a less restricted environment than those in shared and reseller web hosting plans with a minimal investment. With a dedicated server you get more control over what software and packages you want installed and of course root access.

New enterprise level features, high performance and low costs seemed to have caused big expectations for the new release of MySQL.

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- November 14, 2005 -- MySQL AB today reported record interest in the newest version of its popular open source database. MySQL 5.0 has already been downloaded over one million times since its introduction on October 24.

"We have been overwhelmed by the excitement generated around MySQL 5.0 -- including a record-breaking 100,000 downloads in a single day," said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL AB. "It is a testament to our large community of users, developers and partners that 5.0 has taken off so swiftly. It's fantastic that we are also getting lots of new interest from users of other databases, trying out open source and MySQL for the first time."

MySQL 5.0 now delivers advanced SQL standard-compliant features
such as stored procedures, triggers, views & new pluggable storage engines.

UPPSALA, Sweden & CUPERTINO, Calif. -- October 24, 2005 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.0, the most significant product upgrade in the company's ten-year history. Starting today, MySQL 5.0 can be downloaded under the open source GPL license at dev.mysql.com.

"We are quite proud to deliver this new version of MySQL -- as it includes the most-requested features from our users, customers and partners," said Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. "With their feedback, we have been able to provide important enterprise-class features while staying true to MySQL's renowned heritage of high-performance, reliability and ease-of-use."