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Latest Release of Interstage Contentbiz Extends Support for Web Services and SOA, Provides Audit Trail for Compliance, and Improves Efficiencies of Enterprise Content Integration

Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced the availability of Interstage Contentbiz v7, the newest version of Fujitsu’s scalable application platform for enterprise content integration. Interstage Contentbiz v7 extends support for Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), offers a new extensible audit trail and enhances integration capabilities. Together, these features allow companies to more effectively access, modify and search structured and unstructured enterprise content resident in disparate, networked systems, independent of format or location. By providing more effective management of corporate intellectual capital assets, Interstage Contentbiz v7 enables businesses to optimize employee productivity, improve customer service and partner relations, comply with government mandates and maximize enterprise value. Key features and enhancements include:

• Bidirectional WebDAV Agent enables integration with any enterprise content management (ECM) system that complies with the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) standard.
• New Extensible Audit Trail ensures that proper audit trail information is maintained for all compliance documentation.
• Enhanced Web Services Interface enables enterprises to leverage a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create Web services and integrate reusable content integration services with applications.
• New Web Content Agent extends the reach of content integration solutions to intranet and Internet content.
• New Content Portlets, which comply with JSR 168 (Java Specification Request for Portlet API), provide commonly used content navigation and search functionality that can be easily deployed on enterprise portals.

Interstage Contentbiz v7 builds on the application platform’s proven performance in enabling enterprises to leverage their entire knowledge asset base – pooling knowledge through content integration and delivering transparent access to information in real-time. It provides simple, extensible content integration services that adhere to open standards. With Interstage Contentbiz, companies can access structured and unstructured enterprise content from different systems and sources, facilitating unified content views, maintaining content integrity across the company and enabling better content repurposing and reuse.

“Faced by competitive pressures to better optimize customer and supply chain relationships, as well as growing demands for government compliance, companies need to turn their isolated silos of knowledge into unified views and processes,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of Interstage at Fujitsu Software Corporation. “With Interstage Contentbiz v7, we continue our commitment to helping companies achieve their strategic and financial objectives by providing best-in-class technology for harnessing corporate knowledge and intellectual capital – regardless of location or format.”

Interstage Contentbiz v7 Features and Enhancements

Interstage Contentbiz is a scalable, extensible platform for viewing, searching and modifying content from a range of sources, including data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications, relational databases and a variety of enterprise content management systems. It also repurposes content for many different audiences without the difficulty and cost of duplication. The Java-based, modular architecture leverages open standards, such as WebDAV and Web services, and includes a proven metadata repository, SDK and a set of services and content agents. With v7, Interstage Contentbiz offers significant new features and enhancements to facilitate enterprise content integration, including a WebDAV agent, extensible audit trail, Web services interface, Web content agent and new content portlets.

WebDAV Agent

Interstage Contentbiz v7 offers a new WebDAV integration agent to extend support for the WebDAV standard for editing files and folders remotely over the Internet. The WebDAV Agent makes it possible to search multiple WebDAV-compliant enterprise content management repositories simultaneously and modify content and metadata from each ECM system based on content access policies.. By providing a standards-based approach to integrating content from multiple repositories, the WebDAV agent eliminates the time to develop and maintain custom integrations.

Extensible Audit Trail

A comprehensive content audit trail is a key requirement for any compliance application. The new extensible Interstage Contentbiz audit trail contains a variety of content events, such as content creation, update and delete, and all content life cycle transitions, such as content approval, publishing and archiving with the timestamp information and the name of the user responsible for each state or transition. It also keeps track of system security-related events, such as when users were added or removed, the roles and access that users are assigned, and when each user logs into the system. All audit trail information can be viewed and queried in the Web-based content browser or any custom client application, based on time, audit events or content types.

Web Services Interface

The Interstage Contentbiz Web Services Interface enables enterprises to leverage a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate reusable content integration services, such as full-text search, with applications that need access to both structured and unstructured content sources. The Web Services interface enables Web service client applications to access the Interstage Contentbiz virtual repository to retrieve a content item or a list of content items from multiple sources as if they were all stored in one repository and request for metadata information. With v7, the Web Services Interface adds a new, extensible Web Services Management component for creating and publishing Web services for any new Interstage Contentbiz service that customers may build for their content integration applications.

Web Content Agent

Many large enterprises have numerous dedicated intranet sites for its business units or departments with constantly growing content volumes, but no means to search across all of these independent sites. Interstage Contentbiz v7 introduces a new Web Content Agent, which goes beyond the dedicated search and query tools of other systems, to extend the reach of content integration to intranet and Internet information. The Web Content Agent enables organizations to register all required site URLs in the content integration solution. It then crawls the registered sites and their sub-structures on predefined intervals, making the site content fully searchable in Interstage Contentbiz full-text searches.

Content Portlets

Enterprise portals typically require portlets to handle each of the many content sources on which they rely, from databases and business applications to document repositories. Interstage Contentbiz provides a common content integration layer to help ease the cost and difficulty of integrating various content sources with portals. This allows portal users to navigate to all content sources via a unified navigation tree, which can be exposed as a single portlet. Interstage Contentbiz v7 now features a set of portlets that comply with the Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 Portlet API and provide commonly used content navigation and search functionality.

About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is part of the Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) family. The wholly owned subsidiary delivers one of the world’s broadest lines of application infrastructure software products, including the Interstage® Suite. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu’s international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions, including more than 4,000 software developers worldwide. To learn more about the Interstage Suite, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage.

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Sun Fire x64 Servers With the AMD Opteron Processor Increase Computational Simulations, Reduce Heat Generation by 30 Percent; Solaris 10 Operating System Selected Over Linux

At the NewEnergy Forum 2005, the conference for energy industry leaders, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company and provider of end-to-end energy IT and consulting solutions for decision support and energy operations, has selected Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers over all top-tier x64 server offerings, and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) over standard Linux distributions as part of its high-performance grid infrastructure. The solution, powered by the AMD Opteron[TM] processor, is designed to accelerate applications by increasing computational power, maximize system efficiency and uptime, and provide 30 percent lower heat output than competing alternatives.

With the advent of grid computing and Monte Carlo analysis (data obtained by simulating a statistical model in which all parameters are numerical), NewEnergy’s datacenter has grown rapidly. Due to an increase in the computational power used for these simulations, NewEnergy’s datacenter experienced a dramatic increase in air-conditioning costs caused by the heat created by the large numbers of servers that were not from Sun. Sun’s x64 servers run 30 percent cooler than competing alternatives, making them an ideal choice.

In addition to being a Sun customer, NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company provides software, energy business solutions and industry expertise to more than 200 clients throughout the world. The company enables customers to meet the largest challenges in strategic and financial planning, energy market and transmission analysis, energy trading, risk management, as well as retail and wholesale energy market operations.

“After 29 years of business, for the first time NewEnergy is no longer vendor agnostic,” said Neal Tisdale, vice president of software development, NewEnergy Associates. “We owe it to our customers to recommend the virtually unmatched price-performance and reduced heat generation of Sun’s x64 server line powered by the AMD Opteron processor over all other tier-one vendors evaluated. The ability to upgrade to higher throughput dual-core CPU’s without increasing the heat output, and the flexibility to run Solaris OS, Windows or standard Linux distributions, provides a great investment and a dramatic decrease in operational costs.”

In addition, NewEnergy selected Solaris 10, over competing operating systems, for its unparalleled track record, its innovative and comprehensive Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) capability, expansive global support network, and the ability of Solaris 10 to be binary- compatible with other versions.

“As a leading global provider of energy IT solutions expertise, NewEnergy Associates represents a growing category of customers who are demanding more from their IT systems,” said Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing, Network Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. “With extreme performance, reliability, serviceability and flexibility, Sun’s x64 systems provide NewEnergy with virtually unrivaled return on enterprise IT investment. These stellar benefits, coupled with the powerful and innovative features of Solaris 10, provide a winning combination for NewEnergy Associates, and its need for higher computational grid technology.”

NewEnergy’s investment in Sun technology includes Java technology, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, the Solaris 10 OS, and latest Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers. Sun’s technology offerings help NewEnergy establish a thorough grid computing infrastructure, run Oracle databases with large memory requirements, and conduct faster risk analysis, which previously required overnight computations. More information on NewEnergy Associates, a Siemens Company can be found at: http://www.newenergyassoc.com/.

For more information about Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers, please visit: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire, Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Imaging Center Expands Clinical Capabilities and Delivers Faster, More Comfortable Exams

Leading the open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) market with standard-setting gradient performance, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. (TAMS) today announced the installation of the Ultra open-MRI system at Boynton Beach Open Imaging Center in Florida.  With its cryogenless superconducting magnet design, unique gradient field technology, and the industry’s best slew rate, Ultra is one of the most powerful whole body open-MRI systems available today.  The system enables clinicians at Boynton Beach Open Imaging Center to perform faster, higher-resolution imaging and offer advanced imaging techniques using an open-MRI design.

“The Ultra MRI system represents the best of patient-comfort designs without sacrificing performance for advanced clinical studies,” said Anita Bowler, MR product manager, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.  “With its powerful gradient technology and open design, the Ultra offers clinical capabilities comparable to a high-field MRI system to offer procedures such as True Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) and Super Fast Advanced Spin Echo (FASE), while accommodating both large and claustrophobic patients.”

“We are impressed with the outstanding performance of the Ultra system.  The system’s gradient technology and slew rate are a quantum leap in open architecture design and image quality.  The greatest benefit of the Ultra is faster imaging time, which translates to improved image quality with less patient motion artifacts,” said Richard Sarner, M.D., medical director and chief medical officer, Florida Open Imaging Centers.  “We’ve also experienced stellar results when performing MRI studies such as post-operative imaging of cervical spinal fusion.  Our clinicians not only are able to visualize the inter-body fusion, but also clearly distinguish each individual screw.  We also are able to accommodate both orthopedic and internal medicine referrals because the Ultra is able to perform advanced applications, such as Steady State Free Precession (SSFP), as well as vascular and MR Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) abdominal imaging.  MRCP in particular was not possible with past open-MRI configurations, but the Ultra is capable of this application.”

“In addition to imaging patients more quickly, the four-post design of the Ultra is the most patient-friendly open-MRI design available with its large side-to-side and top-to-bottom openings.  This is particularly beneficial for large patients and professional athletes, who we scan on a regular basis at our facility,” added Dr. Sarner.

High-performance System Design
Ultra is the most advanced and powerful whole body open-MRI system available with its unique MRI gradient field technology featuring amplitude of 25 mT/m (milli-Tesla per meter) and the industry’s best slew rate of 100 T/m/s (Tesla per meter per second).  As a result, this slew rate allows the Ultra’s gradient speed to be nearly five times faster than current open systems and 250 percent greater than its high-field counterparts. 

At this performance level, the Ultra offers clinical capabilities that are comparable to those of more costly high-field systems, and allows the application of high-field imaging techniques, such as Single-shot Echo-planar Imaging (EPI) Diffusion, True SSFP, SuperFASE and Black Blood MR Angiography.

For more information about the Ultra, TAMS and its wide range of medical imaging products, please visit www.medical.toshiba.com.

About Toshiba

With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Toshiba America Medical Systems markets, sells, distributes and services diagnostic imaging systems, and coordinates clinical diagnostic imaging research for all modalities in the United States.  Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, an independent group company of Toshiba Corporation, is a global leading provider of diagnostic medical imaging systems and comprehensive medical solutions, such as CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, MRI and information systems.  Toshiba Corporation is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products, and power systems.  Toshiba has approximately 161,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of $53 billion.

New Software Simplifies Management of Data Center Servers and Business Services

During its quarterly Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q2) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced two new software releases within its Sun N1(TM) product family: Sun N1 System Manager, an easy to use tool for managing large and small installations of Sun systems, starting with Sun’s x64 servers and broadening out to include more systems in the future and the latest version of Sun N1 Service Provisioning System, which introduces bare-metal operating system (OS) provisioning of: Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM) platform) application servers, Web servers and databases.

“MCI is adopting new technologies that deliver next generation services for our customers,” said Tim Muilenburg, vice president of MCI IT Infrastructure. “The equipment and software behind these technologies must be best in quality so our services meet the expectations of our enterprise and government customers. We expect Sun’s N1 tools to help us achieve our goals by automating application provisioning and increasing our data center efficiency. Also, as we utilize the N1 Service Provisioning System, we will be able to accelerate the delivery of business services from several days to a few hours.”

Sun N1 System Manager offers customers an efficient way of managing large and small numbers of Sun systems. Core capabilities include:

• Discovery – users are able to automatically discover their systems from bare-metal and logically organize systems into user defined groups.
• Provisioning – enables users to remotely install their operating systems onto bare-metal systems or to re-provision existing systems.
• Remote Monitoring – offers administrators detailed hardware monitoring for attributes such as temperature, fan and disk usage, as well as OS monitoring for attributes such as memory, CPU, and file systems.
• Remote Management – provides users with secure lights out management capabilities, such as powering systems on and off with role-based access control that grants access privileges to specific users.

The Sun N1 System Manager also features a hybrid user interface that integrates both the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI). With the hybrid interface, operations performed in the GUI are simultaneously reflected in the CLI and vice versa.

“Sun’s N1 software tools are making it easier for organizations to manage the complex systems that deliver their business services,” said Tom Goguen, vice president of product marketing, Operating Platforms at Sun. “With Sun N1 System Manager and Sun N1 Service Provision System, companies can now control the entire stack from bare-metal system through OS to applications and business services.”

The Sun N1 Service Provisioning System simplifies application lifecycle management by rapidly provisioning business services that span multiple tiers – J2EE application servers, Web servers, and databases – across heterogeneous environments. It offers organizations a standard method for deploying business services and tracking changes throughout the deployment process and includes an audit trail to help customers meet regulatory compliance. New features include:

• Application Library – delivers pre-built models for deploying industry leading J2EE application servers, web servers, or database servers from Sun, Oracle, BEA and IBM onto the Solaris OS, including Solaris Containers, and other operating systems, including: Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX.
• Bare-Metal OS Provisioning – allows system administrators to remotely install, configure and rapidly provision operating systems such as the Solaris(TM) OS, Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Through built-in procedures, customers can also rapidly deploy Solaris OS packages and patches, Red Hat Linux package manager files, and Microsoft Windows-based applications, eliminating the need to individually update systems.

Pricing and Availability

Sun N1 System Manager pricing will start at $299 (USD) per managed server and will be available for download on at: www.sun.com/n1, in late summer 2005. The N1 Service Provisioning System pricing starts at $1400 (USD) per managed server and is available now for download at: www.sun.com/n1. Alternatively, customers can purchase N1 Service Provisioning System as part of the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System.

Sun’s NC05Q2 Web event is available at: http://www.sun.com/nc/05q2. More information on today’s announcements, including full Press Releases and product details, can be viewed at Sun’s online press kit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q2/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, J2EE, N1, Sun Fire, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

National, State and Local Governments Embrace Sun Technology to Deliver Services to Citizens

During its quarterly Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q2) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) highlighted growing worldwide momentum with governments in the United States and abroad, as well as partners like GTSI and Boeing. Sun’s unwavering commitment to delivering secure and scalable technology has led to next-generation solutions for international, national, state and local governments – benefiting partners, customers and citizens.

“For the past 20 years, Sun has provided government agencies with enterprise solutions backed by military-grade security. We consistently strive to meet the needs of world leaders and their constituents, using technology as a way to provide government services and protect personal information, as well as equip government employees with the tools they need to be successful,” said Clark Masters, executive vice president Global Industries and president, Sun Federal.

Recent developments among Sun and its partners include:

• GTSI Corp., one of the largest technology suppliers to the Department of Defense (DoD) is using the Sun Java(TM) System RFID Software to meet the DoD’s RFID requirements. This software, combined with the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), allows GTSI to obtain critical information on product shipments and orders for the DoD.
• Tadpole Computer, Inc., a California-headquartered company that manufactures Sun-compatible mobile computers, signed an agreement with Sun to include its products on Sun’s government price list. Tadpole’s solutions are used extensively for deployable military applications, and Sun and Tadpole have already teamed on large multi-million dollar sales of deployable hardware into two government programs.
• Boeing recently selected JXTA(TM) Technology to provide the peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery service for the System of Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) for the U.S. Army’s multi-billion dollar Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiative.
• Department of the Air Force Headquarters Operations and Sustainment Systems Group was the first government organization to completely implement a Java(SM) Center of Excellence, which is designed to provide organizations like the United States Air Force with proven and tested methodologies for Java technology-based application development.

In addition to a strong tradition of collaboration on specific projects, in September 2004, Sun opened its new iForce(SM) Solution Center for government. This facility provides the resources and support to build and test real-world environments that government and commercial customers can leverage more quickly, securely and reliably to help define and solve business problems and integration challenges. The “test before you invest” methodology helps to promote interoperability across multi-vendor solutions, as the center is designed to mitigate risk, reduce cost and assist in the development of solutions that address specific business processes.

Sun’s strong presence in the U.S. government market is matched by its goal to assist governments worldwide in providing the best technologies to their constituents. The Belgian Ministry of Finance has awarded Sun its Identity Access and Management project. Sun will help develop a role- and rule-based access control solution to manage the identities of 35,000 civil servants and contractors. Other projects around the world include implementing one of the world’s largest archiving projects at the D-sseldorf-based Rheinprovinz State Insurance Institution, where Sun masterminded the development of the entire systems landscape, from database and archive clusters, to disk and tape memories. As one of Germany’s leading statutory pension insurers, the State Insurance Institution has 4,300 employees and 6.6 million clients in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is estimated that the digital archiving of more than 1.3 million old files will save millions of Euro.

On the state and local level, the City of Oakland has recently expanded its relationship with Sun after cutting payroll processing time from four days on its former systems to seven hours on the Sun Fire(TM) 15K server. The City of Oakland then turned to Sun for an enterprise-scale server refresh and storage upgrade to automate more of its business processes. By increasing its computing capacity, the City of Oakland anticipates migrating applications from expensive legacy servers, providing the compute resources required for new applications, while continuing to experience high levels of performance and system availability as it processes payroll, manages its finances and carries out human resources activities.

“Sun’s unwavering dedication to global, national, state and local governments is evident in everything we do. From the Government iForce Center to our position in the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, which works to ensure that DoD and intelligence community information is easily interoperable, we believe our strengths in security and scalability are unmatched and respected, and we will continue to innovate for governments around the world so they can better serve their populations,” said Masters.

Sun’s NC05Q2 Web event is available at: http://www.sun.com/nc/05q2. More information on today’s announcements, including full Press Releases and product details, can be viewed at Sun’s online press kit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q2/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Java, Sun Fire, iForce, Sun Ray, JXTA and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Commitment to excellence has earned Fujitsu recognition as an outstanding supplier this past year to SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), one of the world’s leading data, voice and Internet services providers.

“We are proud of our longstanding tradition of going beyond the call for our customers,” said Maureen Merkle, president of SBC Procurement. “We succeed at that because strategic supply chain partners like Fujitsu consistently go beyond the call for us.”

Fujitsu was one of a select group of 47 suppliers recognized for their work in helping the SBC companies deliver outstanding service to its customers during the past year. Fujitsu was recognized for its contributions in the Cost Management & Creative Solutions category.

“As a strategic supplier to SBC for nearly two decades, we are extremely proud to be honored by SBC as one of their top suppliers,” said George Chase, group president and chief operating officer of Fujitsu Network Communications. “As one of only a handful of equipment providers who manufacture the majority of its products in-house, Fujitsu can implement ongoing component, product and process improvements throughout our supply chain to reduce network deployment costs for our customers. The cost management award is an affirmation of our achievements in world-class manufacturing.”

As part of its annual supplier recognition program, SBC took out a half-page ad in the April 22 edition of the Wall Street Journal to publicly thank the selected companies.

About Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. creates and delivers robust wireline and wireless solutions that power next-generation communications networks in North America. With an unequalled portfolio of IT and telecom products and the support of over 150,000 professionals in more than 100 countries, Fujitsu helps its customers fuse information and networking technology with commercial value.
For more information, please see: http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom

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eBay Scales Global Business on Sun Infrastructure

New Technologies and Services Provide Smarter Options for Enterprise and Government Customers and Amplify Capabilities of the Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Grid

During its quarterly Network Computing ’05(NC05Q2) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced Sun(SM) Connection, the first of many services to be delivered as part of the company’s Sun(TM) Grid model. Built on the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), the always-on Sun Connection program joins Sun’s compute ($1/cpu-hr) and storage ($1/GB-mo) offerings as services that extend Sun’s grid strategy.

“Today Sun is providing customers with smarter technology options, more control over their data centers and the ability to maximize economies of scale throughout their IT infrastructure,” said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun. “CIOs no longer need to hand over the keys to their kingdom to services behemoths, because the power to run their business is back in their own hands. With the combined muscle of our new Sun Connection Services and the Solaris 10 OS, we’re offering to take responsibility for security updates and systems monitoring for our enterprise and public sector customers. Sun’s product and service offerings are solving problems for everyone, from the IT manager to the CIO, by allowing them to move from a customized data center model, to a standardized model, and eventually to a true utility model in the data center.”

Currently, Sun has eight major Sun Grid proof-of-concepts underway and dozens of similar engagements across large enterprise customers in industries including: financial services, oil and gas, life sciences and entertainment. The technological advancements of Sun Grid and the Solaris 10 OS continue to redefine network computing as a service model, while addressing the core issues of complexity and cost in the data center.

Continuing to change the playing field with new business models, Sun also introduced Sun Java(TM) StorEdge(TM) Software, a new storage subscription offering that removes the complexity of licensing storage software and support services. This announcement follows the success of other revolutionary pricing and business models from Sun including a shift to make the Solaris 10 OS, which Sun has distributed more than 1.3 million registered licenses since Jan. 31, 2005, free of charge and the launch of the Sun Java Enterprise System, which serves nearly 500,000 users today. Sun also outlined its ‘4X4’ approach for helping customers develop the strategies they need to maximize their existing and next-generation information technology (IT) infrastructures and drive economies of scales faster.

“For the past eight years, eBay has consistently turned to Sun for technology leadership,” said Tom Keeven, vice president of operations and infrastructure, eBay. “eBay requires an IT infrastructure that can quickly scale with its expanding needs and meet all critical requirements for business availability and high throughput, at the lowest total cost of ownership. Sun’s systems and the Solaris OS have helped our data centers maintain record availability. In the first quarter of this year, eBay has 147 million registered users worldwide, trading more than $1,344 worth of goods on the site every second. Accordingly, eBay’s customers depend on our infrastructure robustness.”

Washington D.C. provided the backdrop for Sun’s NC05Q2 product launch event and helped to highlight its ongoing commitment to global governments and longer-range strategic design work in the U.S. According to forecasts issued by IDC in April 2005, the U.S. government’s technology spending will continue to grow steadily, increasing from approximately $43 billion in 2004 to nearly $52 billion by 2007. Demonstrating Sun’s strong industry ties, companies such as: AC Technology, General Dynamics, GTSI, Tadpole Computer and World Wide Technology participated at the Sun event as part of the Technology Pavilion.

New Products and Services Attack Data Center Pain Points

According to an industry report commissioned by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and conducted by an independent research firm, Momentum Research Group in January 2005, nearly 80 percent of respondents expect their IT spending to increase this year in order to address some of their top concerns in the data center, including: IT security, efficiency, consolidation and utilization. In fact, 20 percent of the government data center managers polled said they were uncomfortable with current levels of security and more than 75 percent of all respondents said that they plan to begin, or have already begun, consolidation projects. As part of its NC05Q2 launch event, Sun is delivering new products and solutions to help smart enterprise and government customers attack the data center’s most complex issues.

Sun Connection – Sun redefines the services relationship with customers through its revolutionary new Sun Connection, an integrated, secure network services connection. The service allows for continuous benchmarking of IT health and performance and lets customers save time, money, and resources by providing them with real-time access to sophisticated remote servicing and predictive diagnostic services, availability status, software updates, and other features. The first new Sun Connection service is Sun Update Connection, which delivers all the latest fixes and features for Sun software through a utility model, radically simplifying and reducing the cost of keeping Sun systems and software up to date by offloading the task of managing updates to Sun. Sun Connection portal will aggregate the following connected services: intelligent software updating, availability monitoring and reporting, remote servicing and collaboration, automated risk assessment and remediation, asset tracking and reporting, configuration management, community access, self-support tools and online training.

Java StorEdge System and Managed Storage Services – The Sun Java StorEdge Software program is a unique way for customers to acquire and deploy Sun’s comprehensive suite of storage and data management software and services in-house. Through its simple, affordable and predictable licensing model, customers are able to purchase the right bundle of Sun storage software to manage their heterogeneous environments. For the complete Java StorEdge Software package, customers can pay either $350 per employee per year, or purchase storage capacity, starting at $400,000 for five terabytes (TB) per year. This licensing model offers customers a potential cost savings of at least 30 percent in comparison to typical, point-product offerings.

Sun also announced the Sun Managed Storage Services program, a new way for customers to easily outsource the management of their storage environments, even their entire storage infrastructure, to Sun’s certified storage experts. Both programs are designed to help customers who are struggling to cope with rapidly growing storage demand and limited resources and budget, by providing a simple, cost-effective alternative to complex software and services contracts.

Sun N1 System Manager – Sun simplifies data center management with the upcoming release of the Sun N1(TM) System Manager, an easy to use tool for managing large and small installations of Sun systems, starting with Sun’s x64 servers and broadening out to include more systems in the future.

Sun N1 Service Provisioning System – The latest version of the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System offers organizations a standard method of deploying business services and tracking changes throughout the deployment process, including an audit trail to help customers meet regulatory compliance. The software simplifies application lifecycle management by rapidly provisioning business services that span multiple tiers – Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM) platform) application servers, web servers and databases – across heterogeneous environments.

Sun Grid Offerings – Sun lights up the Sun Grid family of products, providing a full spectrum of grid-based solutions that offer more choice and smarter options for enterprise and government customers with grid computing needs. For customers who want immediate benefits from a standardized, open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis, Sun today announced the availability of its pay-per-use compute utility, $1 (USD) per CPU per hour ($1/cpu-hr), delivered via Sun Grid, Sun’s standardized global grid. For customers who want pre-integrated racks with flexible configurations for fast and easy deployment, Sun today announced the Sun Grid Rack System, starting at approximately $77,000 (USD). Sun also announced new Sun Grid Solution, offering a range of tailored services to help architect, implement and manage a grid solution using Sun Grid technology. By enabling the rapid deployment of tested grid architectures, the Sun Grid Solution enables customers to engage with Sun Services to address critical business problems, such as: system utilization, time to results and return on assets.

Sun Operations Management Solution – The Sun Operations Management Solution helps customers mitigate business risk and manage IT operations as business-oriented IT services in a predictable and efficient manner. The new solution aligns with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Support model and utilizes Sun’s data center expertise and best operational practices to help reduce costs, improve overall effectiveness of IT operations and meet business needs.

Sun Business Intelligence Network Computing Solution – Sun unveiled the Sun Business Intelligence Network Computing Solution to help minimize risk, reduce complexity and lower total cost of ownership for business intelligence implementations. By incorporating best-in-class partners, comprehensive services and a robust end-to-end infrastructure, the new solution provides industry leading scalability, performance, availability and security while offering organizations the flexibility to architect a solution that fits their business requirements.

Sun Fire(TM) x64 Servers With Dual-Core Processors – On April 21 in New York City, Sun announced its first dual-core server based on the new industry-standard Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor, and announced dual-core for its entire x64 product line. Delivering world-class performance, Sun’s 8-way server equipped with the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 875 is offered at nearly the same price as a 4-way server equipped with the single-core AMD Opteron processor Model 850(1). The dual-core architecture is designed to help customers achieve twice the performance and power efficiency over competitive x64 single-core server offerings based on Intel processors. These systems can halve customer operational costs, including power and cooling – in some cases saving customers an average of $2M (USD) annually per year(2). In addition, the Sun Fire V40z server set an 8-way 64-bit world record on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, which emulates the business logic and objects of the server-side Java applications(3).

Sun StorEdge 6920 system – On April 12, Sun announced a comprehensive set of enhancements to the Sun StorEdge 6920 system that delivers high-end features and functionality – such as heterogeneous virtualization – at mid-tier prices. The Sun StorEdge 6920 system now helps customers easily consolidate existing storage assets, ensure data availability and protect their storage investments, without breaking the bank.�With this significant upgrade, customers can integrate multivendor storage assets into a single, modular 6920 system, enabling them to help simplify storage management and improve resource utilization. Also included in this release is a comprehensive set of high-availability software for business continuance, from disk-based data recovery to remote data replication, helping to ensure predictable and uninterrupted access to mission-critical data. When coupled with the Solaris 10 OS, customers gain access to an even more powerful consolidation solution from the application to the server to the storage.

Four Principles of Design Applied to the Four Architectures – Sun unveiled its ‘4X4’ approach to how customers can achieve economies of scale in their data centers faster. Its four principles of design provide a framework for the following: building IT infrastructure that is focused on competitive differentiation; demanding open, interoperable infrastructure; standardizing and automating to maximize service levels; and making security part of the core architecture design. The four critical architectures in Sun’s plans include the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for driving business processes, the Sun Secure Network Access Platform (Sun SNAP) for anywhere/anytime secure access, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for managing data as a service, and the Service Optimized Data Center platform (SODC) for optimizing IT infrastructure for service delivery.

Sun’s NC05Q2 Web event is available at: http://www.sun.com/nc/05q2. More information on today’s announcements, including full Press Releases and product details, can be viewed at Sun’s online press kit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q2/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Java, StorEdge, Sun Fire, N1 and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

(1)Pricing measured at the time of launch for both products and adjusted for differences in memory size/type, price equal within 1.3 percent.
(2)Customers deploying a 10,000 CPU core compute farm can experience an average annual savings of $2M in power and HVAC costs when purchasing Sun Fire V40z servers with the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor over comparable Dell, HP or IBM servers equipped with Intel Xeon MP processors, providing the same amount of CPU cores.
(3) SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published as of 04/28/05. For the latest benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/. The 8-way and 8 CPU systems have eight cores. 64-bit systems have 64-bit capable implementation of the operating system and Java Virtual Machine. Sun result has been submitted to SPEC. The Sun Fire V40z server (4xAMD Opteron Model 875, Solaris 10): SPECjbb2000 – 197,545JBBops/s.

“Instant On” Grid Provides Customers Greater Flexibility and Choice; Successful Proof of Concepts Already Deployed by Customers In Multiple Industries

During its Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q2) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced momentum for its recently introduced Sun(TM) Grid utility computing offerings and new additions to its grid computing family of products. Sun now provides customers with more options than ever before, to address their grid computing needs.

For customers who want immediate benefits from a standardized, open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis, Sun announced Sun Grid Storage Utility, as well as a sneak peek of its Sun Grid Compute Utility. For customers who want in-house grid computing environments, Sun announced the Sun Grid Rack System and the Sun Grid Solution, new offerings which include pre-integrated racks with flexible configurations for fast and easy deployment, and tailored services for architecting, implementing and managing customer grids.

“Sun Grid is being met with tremendous enthusiasm. Customers are benchmarking their data center spending and are realizing they can partner with Sun to re-allocate capital costs to take advantage of our true utility model,” said Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun. “Our sites are live; and we have proof-of-concepts with financial services, oil and gas, life sciences and entertainment companies around the world. Our grid computing offerings allow them to take advantage of standardized infrastructure to drive economies of scale, resulting in better service levels, higher grades of security and better system manageability, all at a dramatically lower cost.”

Sun Grid Momentum

Sun Grid lets customers more simply, predictably and reliably deliver the power of multiple resources to a single user for a specific purpose�at the transparent price of $1(USD). Sun Grid offerings include the Sun Grid Compute Utility, a $1 (USD) per CPU per hour pay-per-use offering ($1/cpu-hr), and the Sun Grid Storage Utility, a $1 (USD) per gigabyte per month offering ($1/GB-mo). In the coming months, Sun will also roll out additional Sun Grid offerings for the desktop and developer communities. Sun today announced:

• Regional Sun Grid Centers are now live and fully operational in Virginia, New Jersey, and London, with customers from the financial and education sectors. Sun plans to open more Sun Grid Centers worldwide in the future.
• Customer acceptance: High profile banks and entertainment companies have completed extensive testing for Sun Grid. Sun will announce more details of these customer wins in the near future.
• Further details on its Sun Grid Storage Utility, a high-performance storage offering to support customers’ compute grid jobs, or to be used to support their data storage needs at a price of $1/GB-mo. Customers get secure Internet data replication and recovery; 24×7 access to offsite storage; and unlimited scalability. The Sun Grid Storage Utility includes fully integrated hardware, software and services, provided by Sun. The utility is managed and serviced by Sun experts 24×7 and Sun also offers continuous service improvements. Scheduled availability of Sun Grid Storage Utility is Summer 2005.
• Customers and partners can now sign up for the Sun Grid Compute Utility “sneak peek program,” an early access program for pre-qualified Sun customers to test their applications for compatibility and performance on the Sun Grid. Additionally, their feedback will be incorporated into the commercially available offering to be released this Summer.

Sun Grid Rack System and Sun Grid Solution

In addition, Sun is expanding its offerings to provide solutions to a wide spectrum of grid computing needs.

• The new Sun Grid Rack System makes it easier for customers to deploy powerful grids. It uses building blocks like Sun Fire(TM) servers with x64 processors and Sun software, in pre-integrated racks with flexible configurations, for rapid and low-risk deployment. The Sun Grid Rack System, starting at approximately $77,000 (USD), is delivered through Sun’s Customer Ready System (CRS) program.
• Sun also offers the new Sun Grid Solution, a range of tailored services to help architect, implement and manage a grid solution using Sun technology and expertise. By enabling the rapid deployment of tested grid architectures, the Sun Grid Solution enables customers to engage with Sun Services to address critical business problems, including: system utilization, time-to-results and return-on-assets.

To date, an increasing number of government agencies and enterprise customers, such as: the Bank of Montreal, Idaho National Laboratories (INL) and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) among others, have embraced grid computing solutions from Sun.

INL has deployed a grid environment including racks of Sun servers based on AMD-Opteron(TM) processors. INL’s High Performance Computing Architect, Eric Greenwade, reported that work was being accomplished within 28 hours of delivery. “The Sun Grid Rack System looks like a winning proposition. When we used Sun’s CRS program for deploying our grid environment, the racks practically came off the truck running — we were able to have the entire eight-rack cluster up and submitting jobs within two days,” explains Greenwade. “All we had to do was hook it up to power and to our network, load the systems, and we were ready to go.”

More information about Sun’s grid computing products is available at www.sun.com/grid.

Sun’s NC05Q2 Web event is available at: http://www.sun.com/nc/05q2. More information on today’s announcements, including full Press Releases and product details, can be viewed at Sun’s online press kit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q2/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Grid, Sun Fire and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Delivers IT Operations Management as a Utility Servic

During its Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q2) launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) announced Sun(SM) Connection, an integrated, secure services connection that links customers, partners, developers and Sun in a dynamic and collaborative network-based community. With Sun Connection, the network is a key component of Sun’s service relationship with its customers and a way for Sun to deliver ongoing value.

Sun Connection continuously benchmarks information technology (IT) health and performance and lets customers save time, money and resources by providing them real-time access to sophisticated remote servicing and predictive diagnostic services, availability status, software updates and other features. Sun Connection is designed for customers who self-manage their IT environments. Sun also announced Sun Management Connection, management services that leverage the Sun Connection capabilities and allow customers to selectively outsource their IT management to Sun.

“The challenge isn’t making the system scale, it’s making the customer scale. It’s not about fast computers, it’s about a fast customer,” said Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer at Sun. “Sun Connection is about the connected customer — always on, always connected. Sun Connection brings rocket science to the datacenter. By generating services economies of scale through technology and not people, Sun Connection is creating a new breakthrough IT services economic model — delivering IT as a service.”

Sun Connection harnesses more than 20 years of Sun innovation, including Sun Preventive Services, along with Sun best practices and network computing firsts, to provide intelligent services over the network through a simple graphical user interface. A base level of these new advanced services will be delivered within existing service plans at no additional cost to Sun customers.

The first new Sun Connection service is Sun Update Connection, Sun’s software update utility. Sun Update Connection delivers all the latest fixes and features for Sun software through a utility model, radically simplifying and helping to reduce the cost of keeping Sun systems and software up to date by offloading the task of managing updates to Sun. Sun Update Connection leverages the network to provide customers with access to Sun’s knowledge and updates, increasing efficiency of system and software maintenance and reducing IT cycles, all while increasing overall stability and security. Sun Update Connection helps customers minimize change by tapping into an extensive knowledge base, which includes more than one million system configurations and a powerful business rules engine, to provide informed recommendations about relevant updates.

“Sun Connection leverages Sun Grid and other Sun technologies in ways that deliver specific business benefits and value,” said Michael Dortch, principal business analyst, Robert Frances Group (RFG). “The ability to make granular recommendations for risk mitigation and system updates based on specific business needs and architectural considerations should be compelling to companies currently or considering doing business with Sun. With Sun Connection, Sun can credibly position itself as an effective, innovative provider of trusted IT services with demonstrable business benefits that can extend from single systems to entire enterprises.”

“Sun Connection is a great testament to the Sun connected customer strategy. It allows us to continue to reduce costs while taking advantage of Sun’s preventive capabilities, sophisticated analytics and partner knowledge,” said Bill Kirkland, president, Logistic Computer Services (LCS). “Sun Connection is really a unifying backdrop for the idea of leveraging IT as a service. Sun is way ahead of the competition in that LCS now has a flexible solution that enhances our services relationship with Sun and enables us to better service our customers.”

The initial release of Sun Update Connection delivers individual system updates for the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) running on any platform — Sun, Dell, HP or IBM. Sun will later extend support for previous versions of the Solaris OS. In the future, Sun Update Connection will deliver updates for all Sun software and systems, including Java(TM) technology, firmware, middleware, the Sun Java Desktop System and even updates from Sun partners, including Veritas.

“Veritas and Sun have a long standing strategic alliance. Together we are always looking for ways to continually improve our customers’ support experience,” said Michael Wentz, senior vice president, Technical Services, Veritas Software. “We applaud Sun for offering their customers an innovative and efficient way to help keep their software secure and up-to-date.”

Through Sun Connection, users now have an entry point to Sun Grid, Sun’s new standardized global grid. With Sun Grid and Sun Connection, customers give up the expense and complexity of building out an entire computing infrastructure — and gain more flexibility to help run their businesses at significantly lower costs.

The Sun Connection portal will aggregate the following connected services:

• Intelligent software updating (Sun Update Connection )
• Configuration reporting and analysis
• Remote event detection, notification and reporting
• Availability reporting
• Collaborative remote servicing
• Access to a community of experts and best practices, self-support tools, and online training

About Sun Management Connection

Sun also announced today Sun Management Connection, which incorporates the remote managed services technology from the recent SevenSpace acquisition, delivering highly scalable, 24x7x365 remote management of heterogeneous IT environments over the Internet with no customer investment in IT infrastructure. Sun Management Connection helps customers reduce operations costs by up to 40 percent, refocus on strategic IT initiatives and increase systems performance, without losing control of their IT operations. Customers are able to view real-time systems performance information via a secure portal from any location, at any time. Current Sun Management Connection services include: Managed Operations Services, Managed Storage Services and Managed Security Services.

Sun Managed Storage Services gives customers customizable ways to outsource their biggest storage problems – from daily storage management, “on the fly” provisioning and data lifecycle reporting, to managing the entire Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure.

Availability

Sun Connection is scheduled to be available in the Fall. A base level of Sun Connection services will be delivered within existing service plans at no additional costs to Sun customers. Sun Update Connection is scheduled for general availability in May. Customers can pre-register for Sun Connection now at: www.sun.com/getconnected.

Sun is also offering the following special promotion: customers can get a free 30-day Sun Update Connection subscription, a free 60-day eLibrary subscription to the Sun Learning Center and a free T-shirt when they pre-register for Sun Connection and join the community of experts. More information on this limited time offer is available at http://www.sun.com/getconnected. Terms and conditions apply. More information on Sun Connection services is available at: http://www.sun.com/sunconnection.

Managed Operations Services and Managed Security Services from Sun Management Connection are available now. Managed Storage Services are scheduled to be available this Spring. More information on Sun Management Connect is available at: www.sun.com/managementconnection.

Sun’s NC05Q2 Web event is available at: http://www.sun.com/nc/05q2. More information on today’s announcements, including full Press Releases and product details, can be viewed at Sun’s online press kit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q2/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Java and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., a market leader in document imaging scanners and services, today announced that the Fujitsu fi-5110C compact desktop scanner was named a midmarket “Product of the Year” by CMP Media’s VARBusiness magazine. The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner leverages the industry-leading technology found in departmental and production-level scanners at an affordable price of $895 (U.S. list) and is ideal for decentralized or workgroup scanning applications.

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner is featured and profiled in the special May 2 VARBusiness “State of the Midmarket” issue. VARBusiness, a biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators solicited input from information-technology (IT) vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best suited for midmarket customers – companies with between 100 and 999 employees. Entries were considered and reviewed by VARBusiness editors who selected only 100 of the more than 400 nominated products.

“Our readers tell us that the middle market is one of the fastest-growing IT categories today,” says VARBusiness Publisher Robert C. DeMarzo. “The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner is one that best meets that segment’s needs.”

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner features reliable paper-handling from business cards and checks to legal-sized and other long documents, as well as high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity, a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), and double feed detection. The scanner has fast scan speeds up to 15 ppm (simplex) / 30 ipm (duplex) and excellent image quality with 600 dpi optical resolution and dual-CCD scanning arrays to capture fine details in color or monochrome.

“Fujitsu provides its partners with award-winning, reliable, robust, and cost-effective document imaging solutions and services,” said Victor Kan, vice president, sales and marketing, Imaging Products Group, Fujitsu Computer Products of America. “The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner is a simple, compact desktop scanner that assists our midmarket customers with simplifying their business process with outstanding paper handling features, scanning functionality and service offerings. We are thrilled to receive this acknowledgement from the VAR community.”

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner comes standard with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 Standard and ScandAll 21 which allow users to quickly and easily integrate the scanner into existing workflows. The scanner also comes with TWAIN and ISIS driver support included. It can be purchased through authorized resellers, VARs, and distributors including Compucenter de Mexico, Cranel Imaging, Ingram Micro, NewWave Technology, and Tech Data.

The Fujitsu Service Advantage

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner comes standard with a 1-year depot limited warranty. Additionally, the Advance Exchange service offering, the Fujitsu overnight replacement program, provides the customer a replacement scanner prior to shipment of any malfunctioned scanner back to Fujitsu. The Advance Exchange offering for the fi-5110C scanner is offered as an upgrade during the limited warranty period for only $59 or on a yearly basis post-warranty for only $99 (contract and agreement required for replacement unit).

For more information about Fujitsu services, contact a Fujitsu distribution partner or service sales at 800-301-9475 or visit http://www.ImagingService.com

About VARBusiness Magazine

For the past 18 years, VARBusiness’ strategic resources have been the gateway to the solution-provider community. VARBusiness provides unique strategic business and technology insight for solution providers through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available on the magazine’s Web site at www.varbusiness.com.
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About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers’ success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005.
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About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. conducts engineering and marketing activities in San Jose, CA and sales operations throughout the United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America currently offers products and services including scanners and scanner maintenance, hard disk drives, and Magneto-Optical drives. Fujitsu Computer Products of America is located at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134. For more information about Fujitsu products and services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-432-6333.
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