Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced strong results for disk storage systems sales, as highlighted in the IDC Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for Q2CY08. Sun outpaced all major storage vendors to see a 29.2% year-over-year increase in factory revenue for the second quarter of 2008, outperforming the market by nearly three times.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software, as well as Sun xVM VirtualBox Software Enterprise Subscription, a new offering for 24/7 premium support for enterprise users. For the first time enterprises will be able to fully reap the benefits of the xVM VirtualBox platform and deploy it across their organizations with guaranteed technical support from Sun. xVM VirtualBox software is the first major open source hypervisor to support the most popular host operating systems (OS), including Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris and OpenSolaris. To download the software and sign up for an enterprise support subscription, visit http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) announced today that it will join the MTConnect Technical Advisory Group (MTAG) to further define the open communication protocol standard it helped create for the manufacturing technology industry a year ago.

As part of Sun Microsystems' (NASDAQ: JAVA) commitment to its Partner-first strategy, today it announced enhancements to its Sun Partner Advantage Program that will provide new resources to accelerate business growth and momentum for channel partners in the US. The company augmented its Partner Growth Fund (PGF) with a new Demand Generation component to enable partners to earn additional marketing funds and bolstered its incentive program for those partners that are broadening Sun's footprint by selling Sun solutions to new customers.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the company nearly doubled shipments of its Sun Ray thin clients during the fourth quarter of Sun's 2008 fiscal year, compared to the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year. Sun Ray unit shipments are growing faster than the thin client industry at large, underscoring the increased appeal thin client and desktop virtualization solutions are experiencing among businesses and organizations. Contributing to this growth is strong market demand for Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0, which now ships on approximately 25% of Sun Ray units since being introduced in March 2008, in addition to the unparalleled choice Sun Ray thin clients offer customers, enabling them to display Solaris, Windows or Linux desktops on the same device.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today released significant adoption numbers for the OpenSolaris Storage community that showed over 20% growth in registered members in just six months. In addition, the community now boasts of well over 40 projects that range from a peer to peer distributed storage system to the latest drivers for storage connectivity. This growing and diverse community support for the Open Storage eco-system is comprised of Enterprise, Web 2.0 and high performance computing developers and researchers as well as storage administrators and architects from around the world. Anyone can join the Open Storage revolution by going to: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/

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

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

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, 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.

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 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.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Joyent Inc. today announced a collaboration that will accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services. Download the Web Stack at http://www.sun.com/webstack.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the completion of a significant security benchmark for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Solaris 10 11/06 with Solaris Trusted Extensions has achieved Common Criteria Certification for the Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+, the highest commonly recognized global security certification. This allows Solaris 10 to be deployed by customers requiring Multi-Level Security (MLS) protection and independent validation of an OS security model - such as financial, healthcare and government institutions. More information and downloads of Solaris 10 are available at www.sun.com/solaris/10.

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been selected to provide the technology platform to NBC Universal for its Olympic web site, NBCOlympics.com, during the network's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China, August 8-24. The announcement was made today by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics and Peter Ryan executive vice-president, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems.