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Customers to Benefit from Combined Expertise and Broad Solution Offering

Fujitsu Consulting, part of Fujitsu’s global software and services business, and BORN, a leading business and technology consulting firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Fujitsu Consulting will acquire the capital stock of BORN. The agreement is subject to closing conditions and is expected to be completed within 30 to 45 days. Additional terms were not disclosed.

The acquisition will strengthen Fujitsu Consulting’s North American team and extend its delivery capability in several key markets including Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas, Milwaukee and Atlanta. BORN’s staff of nearly 400 professionals brings significant experience and expertise in solution areas such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Microsoft solutions, enterprise data management and application integration.

“The depth of BORN’s customer relationships combined with their solution expertise and geographic presence in key markets made them a very attractive team for Fujitsu’s North American growth plan.” said John Rose, CEO, Fujitsu Consulting. “BORN’s service offerings complement our core strengths in IT governance, information management, legacy systems modernization and application outsourcing, significantly expanding our U.S. delivery capabilities, both regionally and nationally.”

Stated Elmer Baldwin, CEO of BORN, “Joining Fujitsu—the world’s third-largest IT services company—is the next logical step in the evolution of our company. This is great news for our customers, providing them with new dimensions of service, capability, reliability and assurance. It’s also great news for our employees, opening a whole new world of opportunity to grow and develop within a $45 billion global IT leader.”

Customers will have access to BORN’s fully integrated range of service offerings, as well as direct access to industry-leading services, solutions and technologies from Fujitsu—while being supported by an even more comprehensive delivery capability in a growing list of key U.S. metropolitan markets

“We have had a lasting and productive relationship with BORN, counting on them for a variety of services ranging from strategic insight to development and implementation of advanced IT systems,” said Steve Brown, senior vice president and CIO at Carlson Companies in Minneapolis. “We are excited about the prospects of continuing our relationship with the added benefit of new technologies, services and global delivery capabilities from Fujitsu.”

Increasingly, IT buyers are demanding high-value services that can be delivered through proven engagement methods leveraging local strengths, capabilities and expertise combined with an integrated global delivery model. The combined strength of Fujitsu and BORN is aligned with this changing marketplace and positions the company to further grow its business by meeting changing customer service expectations and needs.

According to Gartner, “Consulting, development and integration services is increasingly becoming a scale market in which larger vendors that offer multiple service lines have a competitive advantage. Being a full-service provider is key to making it into the top 10 rankings in North America.”*

About Fujitsu Consulting

A trusted provider of management and technology consulting to business and government, Fujitsu Consulting is the North American consulting and services arm of the $44.5-billion Fujitsu group. Fujitsu Consulting integrates the core expertise of the Fujitsu companies and its partners to deliver complete business solutions in the areas of IT governance, information management, legacy systems modernization and application outsourcing. Through its full range of consulting, implementation and IT management services and its industry-recognized strategic approach, Macroscope®, Fujitsu Consulting enables clients to build more value into their IT investments and drive their leadership in the marketplace.
For more information, please see: us.fujitsu.com/consulting

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.
For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com

About BORN

BORN is a leading IT consulting firm that offers a broad portfolio of services—from strategic consulting to technology implementation. BORN provides clients with a flexible, collaborative approach; clear industry perspective; and the breadth, scale and experience to deliver results—on time and on budget. The company is most noted for its technology expertise; its strong track record of delivery; and its experienced, talented people. BORN’s leadership in customer satisfaction has been recognized nationwide.
For more information, please see: www.born.com

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LEON3 has passed SPARC Architecture Version 8 compliance testing on May 1, 2005 and has been declared SPARC V8 Compliant.

The LEON3 is the more performant successor of the LEON2 processor capable of delivering 400 MIPS on a 0.13 um process. The successful compliance testing is yet another milestone in our continuous development of SPARC processors, says Jiri Gaisler, CTO and founder of Gaisler Research.

The SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is the industry’s only openly defined and evolved RISC architecture. Unlike other RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) designs, SPARC specifies not a hardware implementation (“chip”), but an open, standard architecture belonging to the community of SPARC vendors and users. The SPARC specification is defined by the SPARC Architecture Committee, a technical arm of the computer-maker consortium, SPARC International.

About Gaisler Research AB

Gaisler Research AB is a provider of SoC solutions for exceptionally competitive markets such as Aerospace, Military and demanding Commercial applications. The Gaisler Research’s products consist of user-customizable 32-bit SPARC V8 processor cores, peripheral IP-cores and associated software and development tools. Gaisler Research solutions help companies develop highly competitive customer and application-specific SoC designs.

Leading Governmental Agencies, Financial Services Firms and Universities Select Sun’s Range of Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers for HPTC; Company Further Cements Itself as Number One Unit Market Share Vendor According to Leading Analyst Firm

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) closed out CY2004 with strong customer momentum in the high performance and technical computing (HPTC) market and solidified itself as the number one vendor in unit market share for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest research from IDC. Sun’s range of servers powered by AMD Opteron processors fueled Sun’s growth in overall unit market share on a year-over-year (Y/Y) basis as the company exited 2004 more than 15 share points ahead of its nearest competitor. Evidence of Sun’s success includes its continued penetration of key vertical industries, such as government, financial services and education, as it continues to drive grid computing into the mainstream of HPTC data centers.

The company’s strong performance is the result of its investment in the Solaris 10 operating system, the continued expansion of its Sun Fire x64 product range, and providing its customers with options to include Linux distributions in their HPTC data centers. As the HPTC market continues to shift to clusters of smaller, more powerful servers, Sun is well-positioned to deliver the types of solutions to meet the needs of customers in a wide variety of industries.

Deployments of Sun’s Grid technology announced in 2004 spanned industries ranging from government to financial services to education. Notable wins included the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Leicester, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, University of Nottingham, and several others.

Sun and INL teamed on a solution that includes more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, and more than 12 Terabytes of Sun StorEdge 6320 storage, the Solaris 10 operating system, Sun Java Enterprise System and Java development software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition, Sun’s StarOffice 7.0 office productivity platform, as well as advanced on-site training and support from Sun’s Services division. The cluster’s full-throttle computing power ranks the INL datacenter as one of the world’s top supercomputing sites.

“With its emphasis on maximizing data center utilization and value, grid computing continues to move into the mainstream,” said Peter ffoulkes, group director, high performance and technical computing marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “Overall, the HPTC market is beginning to pick up after a couple of slow growth years and the recent investments we’ve made to broaden our product line are paying off. We are confident that we are uniquely positioned to address customer pain-points in all market segments with our servers based on SPARC and AMD Opteron processors.”

Full details are available in IDC’s Worldwide Technical Server 4Q04 Vendor Shares Apr 2005 Doc #33218.

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, Java, StarOffice, Solaris, StorEdge,and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. SPARC is a trademark or registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Solutions That Set New Standards in Financial Reporting

DynAccSys to Use Fujitsu’s® Interstage® XWandTM XBRL Toolkit to Create the XABRA Tools, an XBRL-Enabled Financial Application System for Mid-Size Businesses and Government Agencies

Fujitsu Software Corporation and DynAccSys today announced a partnership to deliver financial applications based on the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), the industry standard for online financial reporting. Under terms of the agreement, DynAccSys will use Interstage XWand, Fujitsu’s industry-leading XBRL software toolkit, to develop the XABRA Tools. This XBRL-enabled application system allows for seamless data exchange and integration among disparate systems and permits compliance with financial reporting mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II. DynAccSys, a provider of enterprise technology, consulting services and accounting solutions, will deliver the XABRA solution to its customer base of mid-size businesses and federal government agencies.

XABRA is an XBRL-based application that offers a complete solution for extracting and standardizing data for XBRL-based business processes. XABRA accepts data in different formats, such as CSV files or dynamically defined SQL queries; standardizes it through the XBRL General Ledger taxonomy; and produces XBRL Instance Documents for consumption by reporting and non-reporting business processes. By eliminating manual retyping and paperwork, and delivering data in XBRL standard formats, XABRA is expected to significantly reduce costs in the financial and business reporting supply chain.

The XABRA Tools consist of:

• XABRA Binder – Binds SQL queries or CSV files to link taxonomy definition files to create real-time Instance Documents for consumption by XBRL-enabled systems.
• XABRA Constructor – Allows users to graphically link XBRL taxonomies to user-defined SQL or CSV and save the resulting relationships for re-use. Additionally, real-time XBRL Instance Documents are generated through XABRA Binder via the click of a mouse.
• XABRA Engine – A J2EE-based server component designed to generate and post-process
• XBRL Instance Documents and related taxonomies into multiple human readable formats, like HTML, PFD or Word documents.

“Our customers include a range of users with very different levels of experience, from compliance officers who understand XBRL to knowledge workers with no formal training in finance or accounting,” said Lisa Miller, president of DynAccSys. “Fujitsu’s Interstage XWand provides us with the rich functionality and proven, robust performance to quickly and cost effectively deliver XBRL-enabled applications that support financial reporting and compliance best practices across the entire organization.”

Fujitsu’s Interstage XWand is the first fully XBRL 2.1-compliant development and runtime environment supporting Java and .NET. With Interstage XWand, companies can build and deploy full-featured, industrial-strength XBRL applications that:

• Allow organizations to comply with financial reporting mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II.
• Simplify analysis of corporate accounting statements for investment portfolio, risk review and loan purposes.
• Improve financial reporting processes and provide greater transparency for corporations, regulatory bodies and investment firms.
• Meet IRS requirements for companies to file their financial data in the XBRL standard.

“Interstage XWand is the XBRL-enablement solution of choice among regulatory bodies of the world’s major financial centers that are focused on regulatory compliance and greater transparency in financial reporting through XBRL,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of Interstage at Fujitsu Software Corporation. “With DynAccSys, the power of XBRL will be extended to mid-size businesses and federal government agencies through Interstage XWand-based applications that set a new standard for financial reporting.”

About DynAccSys

Established in 1982, DynAccSys makes enterprise-class technology and accounting solutions accessible and affordable for the medium size business and the Federal Government.

Its unique blend of business lines links Software Development, professional and consulting services in Accounting and Business Operations and Application Hosting expertise to provide to its customers the right solution for their needs, and to enable them to put it to work effectively.

As a leading edge custom software developer, DynAccSys designs and builds solutions to solve complex business problems. Innovative thinking has yielded design breakthroughs such as automated adjustment tools for complex business and accounting processes, XML/XBRL-based reporting engines, and other tools to facilitate data consolidation and financial reporting. To learn more about DynAccSys, visit www.dynaccsys.com. For more information on XABRA Tools, visit www.xabratools.com.

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 and NetCOBOL®. 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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Copyright 2005 Fujitsu Software Corporation. Fujitsu, the Fujitsu Symbol Mark, and Interstage are registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited. All Interstage products and components are trademarks of Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Software Corporation. XBRL® is a registered trademark of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. All other registered trademarks, trade names, or service marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Contact Information

Fujitsu Software Corporation
Lisa Schiltz
408-746-6247
lisas@us.fujitsu.com

DynAccSys LLC
Gianluca Garbellotto
301-622-0900
ggarbellotto@dynaccsys.com

Blanc & Otus PR
Lori Riedy
415-856-5140
lriedy@blancandotus.com

Ink Deal to Expand Support for IBM Software on Solaris 10

Hundreds of new customers chose solutions from Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) in the company’s fiscal third quarter, further demonstrating its momentum in markets as diverse as financial services and education.

Sun is experiencing customer traction in many areas of the company’s product portfolio, including Solaris 10, Java Enterprise Systems, Sun StorEdge products and Sun’s comprehensive lines of SPARC® and AMD Opteron-based Sun Fire servers. The technology manages everything from user identities at Sabre Holdings in the U.S. to the results of high-energy particle physics experiments at the University of Sheffield in the U.K.

“Sun is delivering the most innovative technologies in our 24-year history. Not only are customers happy with our solutions and service, but they are coming back for more,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s president and chief operating officer. “We’re excited about the demand for new products such as Solaris 10, the world’s most advanced open source operating system, which has topped a million downloads. We’re also continuing to see customer interest, especially on Wall Street, and among technical and academic computing environments.”

Recent customers around the world choosing Sun include:

AirG (Canada) — Using Sun’s Java technology, Sun Fire Servers and Sun StorEdge technologies, this leading developer and distributor of mobile communities and multiplayer games strengthened its high-performance infrastructure to deliver guaranteed access to hosted Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition J2ME(TM)based applications.

Auna (Spain) — Amena, operator of mobile telecommunications belonging to the Auna Group, has selected the Java Enterprise System for the design and development of value-added mobile services. More than 40 Amena services run on the Java Enterprise System platform. The collaboration between Sun and Amena also includes the presence on the operator platform of more than 300 Sun servers and storage systems.

BioSS (UK) — Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS), an organization providing research, consultancy and training in mathematics and statistics to the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department and its sponsored Institutes as well as high-level computational skills to private sector clients, has purchased a Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS system to provide central storage for their UNIX®/Windows environment.

Busan Adventist Hospital (Korea) — To support an expansion to 400 beds, this hospital implemented a new Hospital Information System (HIS) based on Sun technology that has more than 1 Terabyte of storage dedicated to pictoral data storage.

Champion Europe (Italy) — To consolidate seven different information systems into a single centralized platform, Champion Europe – one of the leading sportswear brands in Europe – chose to partner with Sun Microsystems as its technological proposal appeared to better suit its particular needs. Champion then migrated its information system on a two-domain Sun Fire 4800 server, supporting both production and development operations.

Concordia College — Concordia College of Moorhead, Minnesota, selected Sun Microsystems for its campus-wide messaging infrastructure, to replace an existing disparate e-mail system of Microsoft Exchange and SendMail. The new solution will be deployed on existing Sun infrastructure comprised of several Sun Fire V240 servers and a Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array, all running the Solaris(TM) 9 Operating System.

CryptoLogic, Inc. (Canada) — Using Sun’s Solaris Operating System running on Sun Fire servers provides a strong competitive advantage for companies in the rapidly expanding Internet gaming industry. Canada’s CryptoLogic Inc., a pioneer and leading developer of software for secure global online gaming, improved the performance, security and scalability of its platform by transitioning from Sun Solaris 9 Operating System to Solaris 10 for its online gaming software. CryptoLogic’s system infrastructure runs on Sun’s highly-available Sun Fire servers, providing its customers’ players in 240 countries with easy access to their games.

DaimlerChrysler — DaimlerChrysler selected Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition as a solution for its global corporate directory encompassing over 400,000 users. With scalability and performance being the key decision factors, DaimlerChrysler has deployed Sun’s Java System Directory Server software to provide a centralized authentication directory, and as a building block in the company’s application framework.

The D.E. Shaw Group — The D. E. Shaw Group is a specialized investment and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection between technology and finance. DE Shaw purchased Sun Fire V20z systems for two in-house grids and Topspin infiniband product through Sun.

Harcourt Education — This provider of educational materials for the K-12 market installed Sun Fire V480 and V490 servers along with a 4 Terabyte Sun StorEdge 6130 storage system to support its goal of re-purposing its content “anytime, anywhere.”

INPS (Italian Social Security) — Italy’s Social Security Contact Center serves the needs of millions of Italian citizens around the world through its network of consulates running on a Sun Java Enterprise Directory Server. The solution that was designed using a Sun Java Enterprise System Portal Server has reduced the high management costs of the old network while ensuring the secure transmission of data.

Ithaca College — Ithaca College, a private college serving approximately 6,300 students in Ithaca, New York, needed to consolidate its storage concurrent with a project to implement a new Student Information System (SIS). Implementing a storage area network (SAN) based on the Sun StorEdge 6920 system in a multi-phase project, the initial phase includes a 12 TB Sun StorEdge 6920 system, and Sun Fire V890 and V490 servers.

Logistics Computer Systems, Inc. — The recently acquired remote management arm of Sun’s managed services division, SevenSpace, will take full responsibility for LCS’ IT operations. This includes management of its help desk, desktops, network support, infrastructure, systems operations and database administration.

Lucent Technologies Inc. — Lucent will integrate its MiLife Intelligent Systems Gateway with Sun’s Java Content Delivery Server to provide robust content management and content workflow for its telecom carrier customers.

Mogneti Marelli Holding (Italy) — Sun designed, for Magneti Marelli Racing Department, a new system to manage telemetry data for Formula 1 teams in real time, using Java and Jini(TM)/Rio technology with the aim of achieving the required performance, to support multiple platforms, such as Linux and Windows, and to provide high availability and location transparency of components.

NHS Tayside (UK) — This provider of primary care and secondary care services across Tayside to a population of approximately 400,000 implemented a Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS system to backup its network to a centralized tape library.

Sabre Holdings, Inc. — Sabre and Sun have entered into a three year relationship to implement Solaris and Identity Management Services supporting 2 million users, consolidating from 900 mid-range servers to 400 and deploying Sun’s Java Enterprise System to 6,700 employees.

Shepway District Council (U.K.) — Shepway District Council has collaborated with Sun to implement a fully-integrated IT solution that enables Web services for around 100,000 citizens. Shepway is the first local council to adopt the new U.K. Government Gateway – a platform for unified online services to provide every citizen with a wide range of government information and secure access to personal accounts such as tax returns, electronic payments and social benefits.

South Carolina Commission on Education — Implementing Solaris on a series of Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890 servers, and supported by a Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI, the Commission will now provide an integrated library system with “universal borrowing” to every student and faculty member at six institutions regardless of location or institutional affiliation.

The City of Marghera, Venice Municipality (Italy) — The City of Marghera (Venice municipality), in cooperation with Sun Microsystems Italy, realized an IT laboratory for Marghera citizens, the Internet Center “Marghera digitale”. The IT infrastructure, designed and implemented by Sun Microsystems Italy, includes more than 30 Sun Ray(TM) clients, three servers and a software environment with StarOffice(TM) software & the Sun Java Desktop System.

TV4 (Sweden) — TV4, Sweden’s second largest broadcasting channel, has engaged Sun to develop and manage a secure, highly available digital archiving and disaster recovery solution to replace its existing manual tape library system.

University of Nevada, Reno — The University of Nevada, Reno, uses BIDW for Warehouse financial, HR data and student information. The Sun solution resulted in five-fold improvement in query response times, 50 percent decrease in lading time for financial data, support for more than 200 concurrent users at peak access times and also helped meet management targets of 95 percent availability.

University of North Carolina, Greensboro — The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), a public institution more than a century old, needed a fast, reliable, stable and highly scalable storage system to support campus operations. UNCG selected Sun infrastructure that included Sun E2900, V440 and V240 servers, a Sun Cluster 3.1 configuration and two 11 TB Sun StorEdge 6920 systems and deployed them in separate buildings on the university campus.

University of Sheffield (UK) — Sun technology will help add 1.5 teraflops of processing power to the institution’s IT infrastructure for post-graduate physics, chemistry and engineering research.

University of Victoria (Canada) — One of Canada’s leading universities selected Sun Java System Identity Manager as the foundation its identity management platform. The University relies on Sun to manage identity information for students, faculty and alumni in areas such as academics, payroll, parking, and athletics. The solution includes Sun Java System Directory Server, Access Manager and Identity Manager.

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 Fire, Sun StorEdge, Sun Ray, Java, StarOffice 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. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd.

Delivers Unmatched Performance in Application Tier On Solaris 10 OS and Sun Fire Servers for a Fraction of the Cost

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)today announced the publication of a SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark result demonstrating the best price/performance in the application tier for its Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 Standard Edition. The Sun system achieved a score of 1201.44 jAppServer Operations Per Second (JOPS) @ Standard, clearly establishing a world record price /performance advantage for the Sun Java System Application Server especially when running on the Solaris 10 operating system (OS) and the Sun Fire server product line. This result underscores the superior scalability and performance offered by the Sun systems at a fraction of the cost of the competition. It also proves the outstanding performance available from the new Sun Java Application Platform Suite offering.

Performed on the Sun Fire family of servers, the benchmark demonstrated high orders of integration and interoperability of Solaris 10 running on UltraSPARC(R) IV and AMD Opteron-based systems. The benchmark configuration was comprised of 13 Sun Fire V20z servers, each equipped with two AMD Opteron processors Model 248 and running the Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 Standard Edition. In addition, a Sun Fire E2900 server, equipped with 12 UltraSPARC IV 1.35 GHz processors, ran the latest version of the Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Database.

The benchmark delivered a class leading price / performance of $164/JOPS in the application tier (combined software / hardware and support cost) versus IBM’s best submission of $504/JOPS3 . This translates to 90% of the performance for 33% of the total application tier cost.

The benchmark also demonstrated Java System Application Server’s ability to handle complex workloads under very heavy load. During the benchmark, the Application Server supported over 9400 concurrent clients, and processed over 4.3 million complex transactions per hour.

The SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark reflects the rigors of complex applications and high volume transaction processing that is typical of today’s customer environments. The test spans all major components of the application server, including Web serving, Enterprise Java Beans architecture and messaging and includes hardware, application server software, Java Virtual Machine software, database software and a systems network.

About Sun Java System Application Platform Suite

The Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 is the industry’s first commercially available implementation of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 platform. This popular application server is a core component of the new Java Sytem Application Platform Suite, a fully integrated and flexible set of the tools and services required to design, develop, deploy and manage the delivery of next-generation Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Customers can quickly and easily deploy the Java System Application Platform Suite for a low cost of $50 (USD) per employee, per year. For more information, please visit: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/compare.xml

About Sun Fire Servers

The broad range of Sun Fire servers are powered by either UltraSPARC or AMD Opteron processors. The Sun Fire V20z featured in the SPECjAppServer2004 results is one of a family of servers that has achieved more than twelve world record benchmarks in less than twelve months, in several cases outperforming competitor’s systems running x86, Power, or Itanium processors. The Sun Fire V20z server maintains the leadership momentum achieved with the previous previous price/performance world records on SPECjAppServer2002 Multiple Node and SPECjAppServer2002 Dual Node Benchmarks(1). Sun has posted multiple world record benchmark results for all of its x64 platforms, in their respective categories, for a total of over thirty new records(2).

About Solaris 10 OS

Solaris 10 Operating System delivers indisputable performance advantages for database, Web and Java technology services, and High Performance Technical Computing. With new technology advances such as the fastest network stack, advanced tracing, special optimizations for data access and signal handling, and optimizations for multithreaded processors, memory allocator, and compilers, Solaris 10 is powering enterprise applications at record speeds. For Solaris 10 record breaking performance benchmarks, please reference: http://sun.com/solaris/benchmarks

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, Java, J2EE, Solaris, 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.

SPEC(R) and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer(R) are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of April 14, 2005. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing submission from IBM. For the latest SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/.

Aperto Deploys Fujitsu Silicon for Base Stations, Business-grade Subscriber Units

Aperto Networks, a leading WiMAX multiservice systems provider, and Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA), a leading provider of robust wireline and wireless solutions that boost next-generation communications networks in North America, today announced the results of their collaboration to test and integrate the Fujitsu MB87M3400 System-on-Chip (SoC) into Aperto’s WiMAX systems development. Aperto has selected Fujitsu’s SoC as the standard silicon for its PacketWave® base station systems and high-end series of business-grade customer premises equipment.

“We have tremendous confidence in Fujitsu’s WiMAX silicon technology,” stated Aperto CEO Reza Ahy. “Our team has worked with Fujitsu, its SoC emulation platform and reference design for many months, and with engineering samples since the first quarter of 2005. These have fulfilled all critical performance aspects needed for WiMAX certification of our systems and tight integration with the Aperto Media Access Control and patented ServiceQTM (Quality of Service) and OptimaLink™ (link optimization) features.”

“The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC’s performance, availability and economics address our market requirements, and carriers are extremely pleased with Aperto’s base station systems, which incorporate this technology,” he continued. “The accelerated availability of the SoC is critical for our milestones, and multiple carrier field trials have been planned with our WiMAX systems using the Fujitsu chip.”

Aperto and Fujitsu have moved quickly on pre-certification testing of all system functionalities, and are well on-track for the WiMAX ForumTM July 2005 early-stage Plugfest and tests at the WiMAX Forum certification lab CETECOM in Malaga, Spain.

“The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC architecture is highly synergistic with Aperto Networks’ outstanding systems advantages in Quality of Service, with the ability to deliver multiple service flows simultaneously,” stated Keith Horn, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Fujitsu Microelectronics America. “Our collaboration has validated this performance advantage, as well as the benefits of Fujitsu’s footprint, processing power and power optimization, extended reach in NLOS environments and superior operation in full-duplex mode. These aspects are mission-critical to Aperto’s success in the broadband wireless market, and they will help to preserve and extend Aperto’s leadership in IP-rich systems functionality.”

Aperto Networks will join the Fujitsu WiMAX SoC press conference at Broadband Wireless World Forum on April 21, 2005. The event will take place in the Genoa Room in Caesar’s Palace, from 12:45 to 1:45pm. The two companies will demonstrate the integration of their technologies featuring simultaneous Internet access and video streaming at the Aperto booth (#211) and Fujitsu booth (#204).

About Aperto Networks

Aperto Networks is a leader in WiMAX-class multiservice broadband wireless access systems for global markets and a board member of the WiMAX Forum. The company was founded to provide breakthrough solutions to the bottleneck in last-mile broadband access, and is a founding board member of the WiMAX Forum as well as a founder and lead contributor to IEEE 802.16a/d and the ETSI-BRAN standards. Its PacketWave® system is a family of base stations, subscriber units, radios and antennas in 2.5, 3.3-3.8 and 5 GHz frequencies for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint deployment. PacketWave’s scalability and patented technologies support new wireless builds and complement wireline broadband access networks. Aperto is already deployed in over 60 countries, meeting service provider needs for installation ease, IP-rich network functionality, cost effectiveness, rapid provisioning and interference resilience. For more information on Aperto Networks, go to www.apertonet.com.

About Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) leads the industry in innovation. FMA provides high-quality, reliable semiconductor products and services for the networking, communications, automotive, security and other markets throughout North and South America. As a founding and board member of the WiMAX Forumv™, Fujitsu supports the standards development and compliance programs that are essential to successful Broadband Wireless deployment. Fujitsu provides performance-driven WiMAX solutions by leveraging the company’s experience and expertise in the networking and communications markets. Fujitsu offers flexible WiMAX SoC and reference designs for WiMAX-certifiable systems to equipment vendors. For more product information, please visit the company’s web site at http://us.fujitsu.com/micro/WiMAX or please address e-mail to inquiry.bwa@fma.fujitsu.com

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Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced general availability of the Sun Java Enterprise System Release 3, (Java ES) Sun’s flagship enterprise infrastructure software that has transformed the way software is purchased, deployed and managed. Java ES 3 is enriched with new functionality, including Sun Java System Identity Manager, a software product that protects sensitive data, increases efficiency and reduces the costs of identity management.

“Sun Java Enterprise System continues the market transformation we started over a year ago,” said John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun’s software group. “By tearing down the traditional barriers of software infrastructure cost and complexity, Sun Java Enterprise System is aligning business needs with an integrated set of industry leading, enterprise network services.”

The enhanced Java ES solution also provides critical multi-platform support for major commercial operating environments including Solaris 10 on both SPARC(R) and x86, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows 2000 and XP. The single annual license fee model and unlimited Right-To-Use in the Java Enterprise System helps organizations to realize immediate cost savings and dramatically simplify how they select, buy, and use their infrastructure software assets.

In just one year Sun has completely reinvented the way IT managers can plan for and deploy their systems. The Java ES offering was the first subscription- based enterprise solution and broke new ground in the software industry. Today the Java ES product has nearly 360 customers representing nearly 420,000 seats worldwide. Sun has relentlessly innovated on the Java ES solution, delivering a compelling update for its flagship middleware stack that provides a complete system to help solve the problem of integrating complex infrastructure software. New components not previously part of the Java ES offering include:

• Sun Java System Identity Manager — provides integrated user provisioning and identity synchronization services to ensure enhanced security, lowered costs, and improved productivity. The full suite of solutions eliminates manual creation, maintenance, and deletion of identity data, enabling organizations to increase accessibility while maintaining tight security, while also ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition — extends the advanced operational capabilities of the Sun Java System Application Server Standard Edition adding transparent failover and recovery to provide continuous availability for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications and Web services. It is designed to support the most demanding operational requirements of the telecommunications and financial services markets.
• Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access – dynamically renders and delivers personalized and aggregated content to partners, customers, and employees using wireless mobile devices.

Also new in Java Enterprise System Release 3 are Sun Java Studio Enterprise, a model-driven analysis, design, and development environment that leverages the Unified Modeling Language (UML); Sun N1 Grid Service Provisioning System which enables administrators to deploy, configure and update network services from a Web browser; and Sun Java Studio Creator, a next-generation tool for Java application development that combines simplified visual development techniques with the power of 100% Java technology platform standards.

New Accessibility For Sun Java Enterprise System

Earlier this year Sun announced five new market-driven Sun Java System Suites that allow customers to quickly and easily deploy the optimal set of Java Enterprise System technologies for a low cost of $50 (USD) per employee, per year. These suites offer an easier way for customers to buy and implement for identity management, application platform services, system availability and communications. For more information, please visit: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/

Pricing and Availability

The Sun Java Enterprise System combines software and services as a single entity, for a single price, per employee, per year – with an infinite right to use. Sun Java Enterprise System Release 3 is available for $140 (USD) per employee, per year. This price includes access to the comprehensive set of software for enterprise deployment, plus licenses to versions of Sun’s industry leading tools, Sun Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Java Studio Creator and Sun Developer Network Standard subscription.

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, Java, J2EE, N1, Solaris 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.

The MB87M3400 Enables Development of Modular, Scalable, WiMAX-Compliant Base Stations and Subscriber Stations

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today introduced its highly integrated WiMAX system-on-chip, the MB87M3400, which complies with the IEEE802.16-2004 standard and will enable development of a new generation of WiMAX-compliant broadband wireless access (BWA) equipment.

The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC sets the stage for both base station and subscriber station implementation, which will bring cost-efficient, high-quality, fixed broadband connectivity to Metro Area Network users, without the need for direct Line of Sight access to base stations from their remotely connected subscriber stations. The MB87M3400 is designed to enable deployment of BWA equipment for both base stations and subscriber stations in licensed or license-exempt bands below 11GHz.

“This new WiMAX-compliant SoC is the industry’s most integrated, modular, scalable, and cost-efficient solution,” said Keith Horn, senior vice president of sales and marketing for FMA. “Our design team has worked very closely with innovative systems developers worldwide to deliver the optimal technology for WiMAX-compliant equipment. Early adopters of our system-on-chip are now set to make 2005 the inaugural year for WiMAX-based customer premise equipment, base stations and low-cost subscriber stations in a broad range of geographic markets.”

The MB87M3400 uses an OFDM 256 (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) PHY that supports channels from 1.75MHz up to 20MHz, and can operate in TDD or FDD modes, with support for all available channel bandwidths. A programmable frequency selection generates the sample clock for any desired bandwidth. When applying 64QAM modulation in a 20MHz channel and using all 192 sub-carriers, the SoC’s data rate can go up to 75Mbps. Uplink sub-channelization is also supported.

The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC incorporates sophisticated processing power, including a powerful main RISC engine that implements the 802.16 upper-layer MAC, scheduler, drivers, protocol stacks, and user application software. Also on board is a secondary RISC/DSP that functions as a co-processor, which executes lower-layer MAC functions, offloading processing from the upper-layer MAC and enhancing total performance. A multi-channel DMA controller handles high-speed transactions among agents on a high-performance bus.

Incorporates Security, Radio Control, Analog Circuitry



The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC also incorporates radio control and all required analog circuits, along with a comprehensive set of integrated peripheral functions. To ensure security, the MB87M3400 uses DES/AES/CCM encryption/decryption engines for the 802.16 MAC privacy sub-layer. The chip also includes a memory controller, an Ethernet engine for interfacing to the network, and high-performance DAC/ADC for flexible baseband interface.

Pricing and Availability



The MB87M3400 comes in a 436-pin BGA package and is now available. The price begins at $45 each in 1,000-unit volumes. A complete reference design, including all required software and hardware for a cost-effective system solution, is also available. The reference design is scheduled for certification by the WiMAX Forum™.

Fujitsu plans ongoing, comprehensive support for the WiMAX standards, as the WiMAX Forum and its member companies work to deliver IEEE 802.16e to serve mobile wireless broadband applications.

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About Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) leads the industry in innovation. FMA provides high-quality, reliable semiconductor products and services for the networking, communications, automotive, security and other markets throughout North and South America. As a founding and board member of the WiMAX Forumv™, Fujitsu supports the standards development and compliance programs that are essential to successful Broadband Wireless deployment. Fujitsu provides performance-driven WiMAX solutions by leveraging the company’s experience and expertise in the networking and communications markets. Fujitsu offers flexible WiMAX SoC and reference designs for WiMAX-certifiable systems to equipment vendors. For more product information, please visit the company’s web site at http://us.fujitsu.com/micro/WiMAX or please address e-mail to inquiry.bwa@fma.fujitsu.com

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Most Advanced Operating System on the Planet for Multi-Core Systems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its award-winning Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) supports servers based on the new industry-standard Dual-Core AMD Opteron[TM] processor, including the recently unveiled Sun Fire[TM] V40z server powered by AMD64 dual-core technology. Leveraging more than 20 years of Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) expertise, Sun has been able to tune the Solaris 10 OS and optimize it for the AMD64 platform to deliver near linear scalability.

“Solaris 10 is the operating system that can unleash the power and capability of systems based on AMD’s new dual-core Opteron processors,” said Tom Goguen, vice president of product marketing, Operating Platforms Group at Sun. “Solaris 10 and Opteron have already aced a number of performance benchmarks and are proving to be an exceptionally powerful combination.”

Solaris 10 offers a wide range of functionality specifically designed to take advantage of multi-core AMD64 and SPARC(r) systems, including:

• Multi-Core Platform Support: Customers can be assured that all of the Solaris 10 OS features are fully supported on multi-core systems and that many of the most popular features have been specifically engineered to take advantage of multi-core systems. For example, Solaris Containers can allow for finer-grain resource management at the core level. Additionally, the Predictive Self-Healing functionality in Solaris 10 OS can automatically detect failing cores, and take them offline, without taking the entire CPU offline or affecting application availability.
• Memory Placement Optimization: Originally implemented in 1998 for UltraSPARC(R) servers, Memory Placement Optimization is now supported on AMD64-based systems, improving overall system performance on systems with multiple dual-core CPUs.
• Application Compatibility Guarantee: All software applications that run on Solaris today stand to benefit from the underlying multi-core functionality and enhancements in the Solaris 10 OS – without any modification or recompilation. There are over 185 open source applications such as Apache, TomCat, Samba and MySQL that are pre-compiled, pre-tested and shipped ready to run on Solaris 10 on SPARC, AMD64 and Intel platforms and more than 1,000 applications certified to run on Solaris 10.
• Record Breaking Performance: To date, Solaris 10 has achieved more than 14 record-setting benchmarks on AMD64 and SPARC hardware, four of which were based on multi-core systems. For more information, please reference: http://sun.com/solaris/benchmarks.

“The arrival of multi-core gives Opteron(TM) processor-based systems a path to ever escalating performance gains,” said Gordon Haff, Senior Analyst and IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc. “Add the innovative new features available in Solaris 10 – such as DTrace and Solaris Containers – and you have a very nicely performing and feature-rich option for enterprise customers.”

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. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices.