"We are proud to have chosen Sun Microsystems," said Mr. in the US and other countries. The Sun Ultra 40 and Sun Ultra 45 Workstations ship
with a license for Sun N1(TM) Grid Engine 6 software, making them the
industry's first workstations to bundle grid software at no additional cost,
and all three workstations include fully licensed versions of Sun's developer
tools. Sun's new workstations
provide flexibility in platform and OS choice, combining the stability and
binary compatibility of SPARC(R) technology with the performance and
flexibility of x64. The ultimate performance star, the Sun Ultra 40
Workstation demonstrated an unquestionable lead over the competition, in both
performance and price/performance categories, over a wide range of industry
standard and well-recognized benchmarks. The
Sun Ultra 20 Workstation topped the chart in both performance and
price/performance categories, outrunning the HP xw9300 workstation by
76%, while costing 2 times less(3)
-- World Record price/performance result on EnSight benchmark
The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation offers a tangible alternative to
budget-conscious MCAE (Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering) users,
without compromising the performance.

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registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices.org.4
(3) Sun Ultra 20 (1xOpteron 154/FX 3450/Windows XP) - SPEC APC SolidWorks
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Inc.johnson@sun.

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Tata Sky will pass on to its customers the cost
savings and performance available from adopting the most advanced operating
system on the planet, Solaris 10."
Tata Sky will be powered by a combination of Sun Fire E20K servers running
UltraSPARC (R) IV+-based processors and Sun Fire Workgroup servers.sg .
650-257-4038
mark.

-- The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation delivers industry-leading visualization
capabilities and performance with whisper-quiet operation.6 times the
graphics performance improvement with the new Sun XVR-2500 graphics
accelerator -- making the Sun Ultra 45 Workstation a seamless step up
for existing SPARC customers. The Sun
Ultra 40 Workstation entry-level configuration comes equipped with the Solaris
10 OS, one AMD Opteron processor Model 246, 1 GB of memory, one 80 GB Serial
ATA Hard Disk Drive, one NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Accelerator, one DVD-RW disk
drive, a license for Sun N1 Grid Engine software, and is pre-loaded with
developer tools, priced at $2,295 (USD).sun.

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Tata Sky is investing in building a high quality digital infrastructure in
the country to offer a superior television viewing experience to Indian
households. Deplopying Sun's offerings will empower us with a
technology infrastructure that is best-of-class and geared to deliver high
service level standards that we are targeting"., a joint venture of TATA and STAR, is committed to build a
state-of-the-art Digital infrastructure for Pay Television in India. "Sun designed these new
workstations with these customer needs in mind.sun. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture
developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. HP xw9300
(2xOpteron 254/FX 1400/Windows XP) - SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 Overall
Composite - 2.67; Cost per Composite US $943.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Rebekah Johnson
(650) 585-5473
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Megan Patterson
Bite Communications for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Tata Sky aims to become
India's largest digital television platform, offering consumers a wide array
of programming choices with interactive features and superior picture and
sound quality.com.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Ultra, Solaris, N1, Java,
NetBeans, Sun Blade and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.3; Cost per Composite US$2071
(4) Results are published at
http://www.

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Sun data management products will store, manage and
backup all the data on SE9990, SE6130, NAS, and Tape Library.

"With these new Sun Ultra Workstations, Sun is bringing to the market
scalable, high-performance solutions with a rich feature set of software and
developer tools.
SPEC, SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation.1;
SPECint_rate2000 - 71.
(415) 365 -0358
megan.

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The service plans to
offer its subscribers the best of cable channels, new innovative programming
and interactive services. All SPARC
trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SPARC International, Inc.

Mark Richardson
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age.

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Service Powered by Solaris 10, Sun Fire E20K Servers Running UltraSPARC(R) IV+
Processors

SANTA CLARA, Calif."

New Sun Ultra Workstations Break Ground With 12 World-Record Benchmarks
The new workstations from Sun have demonstrated outstanding capabilities
with various system configurations, while running a variety of supported
operating systems. in the US and other
countries . Olaf Corten is the proprietor and developer of the OCUS
Benchmark.proesite.

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Tata Sky Selects Sun Microsystems to Build State-of-the-Art Direct-to-Home (DTH) Television Service in India

In the lead up to
the launch, Sun Services will provide installation, engineering expertise and
support to Tata Sky. It combines
the fastest single- or Dual-Core AMD Opteron 200 Series processors ,
large memory capacity and multiple 8GB/sec HyperTransport
interconnects, dual-PCI Express x16 graphics interfaces and the latest
graphics technology from NVIDIA."
"Customers are looking for increased performance from their workstations,
including the ability to handle increasingly complex data sets and
sophisticated visualization.com/desktop/workstation/ultra40/benchmarks.com /desktop/workstation/ultra20/benchmarks.

Sells around the globe, with headquarters in California and manufacturing principally in California and Scotland.

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About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, Sun Fire, and
The Network is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. I can see how the features and
benefits of the new Sun workstations will be invaluable to any company
involved with MCAD or visualization . We continue to demonstrate that Sun combines the best
technology with unparalleled innovation, allowing customers to reap the
rewards," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing, Network Systems
Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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, the
joint venture between TATA and STAR, today announced it has selected Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Siemens Power Generation, an early access customer, has been testing both
single- and dual-core Sun Ultra 40 Workstations to run structural and
computational fluid dynamics simulations. The highlights of the Sun Ultra 40
Workstation's nine new world records include:

-- World Record on Pro/Engineer OCUS benchmark
On this leading MCAD benchmark , the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, running
64-bit Windows XP operating system and equipped with two AMD Opteron
processor Model 254 CPUs, is up to 7% faster than the competing HP
xw9300 workstation and up to 49% faster than the closest competing
Intel Xeon-based workstation , the Dell Precision 670(1)
-- Two World Records on SPEC_CPU2000 benchmark for dual socket x86
workstations
The Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, equipped with two AMD Opteron processor
Model 280 CPUs and utilizing the freely available Sun Studio 11
compiler suite on the Solaris 10 OS, excelled on both integer and
floating point intensive throughput subcomponents of the benchmark(2)

The economically priced platform, dual-core-ready Sun Ultra 20 Workstation
provides blazing x64 performance and sets three new world records, including:

-- World Record performance on SPEC APC SolidWorks 2005 benchmark
This benchmark was developed to capture the typical activities of a
CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) designer ,
including I/O, CPU and graphics-intensive operations. Competitive benchmark results reflect data
published as of 01/22/06.6) -
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Sun Microsystems Delivers New Workstations Pre-Installed With Most Advanced Operating System on the Planet Solaris 10; Announces Industry's Fastest x64 Workst

-- Along with the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation , the UltraSPARC processor-based
Sun Ultra 45 Workstation is one of the industry's first workstations
that comes grid-ready to maximize compute resources in an enterprise
environment .

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20 (1xOpteron 154/FX 3450/64-bit SLES 9) - Composite Score - 8.

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The new Sun Ultra Workstations provide customers with more options
for operating systems than any other vendor, including the Solaris (TM) 10
Operating System (OS) and standard distributions of Linux and Windows. Customers today require faster processors, larger memory
and powerful graphics capabilities for workstations, while also demanding
low-cost solutions that meet their rigorous computing needs. The new Sun
Ultra Workstations deliver advanced features that allow enterprise customers
and developers to make the most of their IT resources, such as a license for
Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 software, the Solaris 10 OS and pre-loaded developer
tools including Sun(TM) Studio, Sun Java(TM) Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio
Enterprise and the NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE). "Our AMD Opteron and UltraSPARC processor -based
workstations meet the demands of today's enterprises and developers, while far
exceeding the competition in terms of price, performance, flexibility and
speed to market. The result is an
eight test suite from which a single composite score is derived. Results are published at http://www.75; Cost per
Composite US $382; HP xw9300 (2xOpteron 254/FX 3450/64-bit Linux 2.

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The new industry-standard workstations include the high-performance, AMD
Opteron(TM) processor -based single- and dual-core capable Sun Ultra 40
Workstation and the enterprise-class UltraSPARC (R) processor-based Sun Ultra
45 Workstation, in addition to the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based Sun
Ultra 20 Workstation. What's more, IT departments are faced with
developing the correct IT infrastructure at the right cost," said Lloyd Cohen,
Director, Worldwide Market Analysis at IDC.

com/workstations. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.

A manufacturer of UNIX-based computers ranging from desktop systems to very high-end servers.

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Vikram Kaushik,
CEO , Tata Sky Ltd.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. With its Ultra Workstation
family, Sun offers customers flexibility in platform and operating system
choice, providing options for the x64 market as well as the company's SPARC
installed base. SPECapc is the service mark of Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation.com, as of 01/22/06
(2) The Sun Ultra 40 workstation (2x AMD Opteron Model 280, 4 cores,
2 chips, 2 cores/chip, 16 GB DDR1, Solaris 10): SPECfp_rate2000 - 79.html , as of 1/22/06.
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"Sun believes the world is entering a new era -- a Participation
Age -- where dramatically lowered barriers to entry, plummeting device prices,
and near-universal connectivity are driving a new round of network
participation globally," said Chris Ratcliffe, director of Solaris marketing,
Sun Microsystems.jsp and
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Pricing and Availability
The entry-level price for the dual-core capable Sun Ultra 20 Workstation
starts at $895(USD), and includes one AMD Opteron Processor Model 144, 512 MB
of memory, one 80 GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive , ATI Entry 2D Graphics, one
DVD-ROM disk drive, and is pre-loaded with leading developer tools.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the
development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. For the latest benchmark results, visit
http://www .ensight.com
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, Tata Sky Ltd. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to provide IT Infrastructure solutions and
support for the launch of the company's direct-to-home (DTH) television
service in India in mid-2006.richardson@sun. The Sun Ultra 45 Workstation has three times the storage
capacity of the Sun Blade(TM) 2500 workstation and 2. As demonstrated by the EnSight
benchmark, the workstation delivers the best price/performance
combination, while performing faster than the nearest competing system,
the HP xw9300(4)

Additional information on the Sun Ultra Workstation benchmarks can be
found at: http://www. Sun's results have been submitted to SPEC.

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(Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its new world-record setting Sun Ultra(TM)
Workstations, including the fastest x64 (x86, 64-bit) workstation in the
industry.sun. For additional information on the Sun Ultra Workstations, please
visit: http://www.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or
registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc.

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"We're delighted to provide the technology infrastructure
Tata Sky needs to broaden access to cutting-edge technology and entertainment
in the booming Indian market.com or the Asia
South website at http://sun.spec.

(1) Pro/E Wildfire is a registered trademark of Parametric Technology
Corporation.com/products/performance.

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"Running both the Solaris 10 OS and Linux on the
Sun Ultra 40 Workstation has vastly improved our performance and analysis
times, which enables us to do more in less time and has resulted in more
robust designs with shorter design cycles.

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in the United States and other
countries.

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"The Sun architecture supports millions of mission-critical
businesses across the globe. The servers
will run the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System with Sun N1(TM) System Manager to
ensure maximum up-time, fault recovery and load management . Tata Sky
plans to introduce a nationwide Direct-to-Home (DTH) service that would allow
it to reach every Indian home, however remote it may be. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun. Workstations Blow Away the Competition With 12 New World-Record Benchmarks

SANTA CLARA, Calif."

Sun Sets Precedent with New Features and Industry Firsts
With today's announcement, Sun leverages more than 20 years of expertise
and leadership in the workstation market, delivering one of the industry's
most compelling and complete workstation portfolios.
-- The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Ultra 20 Workstation
delivers superior performance and price/performance for today's
compute-intensive environments, especially for companies in the areas
of software development, electronic design automation (EDA), mechanical
computer-aided design (MCAD) and academic research. The Sun Ultra 45 Workstation
entry -level configuration comes equipped with the Solaris 10 OS, one
UltraSPARC IIIi processor, 1 GB of memory, one 80 GB Serial ATA Hard Disk
Drive, one Sun XVR Graphics Accelerator and one DVD-RW disk drive, priced at
$3,695(USD).07; Cost per Composite US$1033.patterson@bitepr.

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The service will enhance the choice for viewers looking for the
best of pay television services in the country.

About Tata Sky
Tata Sky Ltd.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- guides Sun in
the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. in the United States and in other countries. Products bearing
SPARC trademarks are based upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
"We are extremely impressed with the functionality and stability of the
Sun Ultra 40 Workstation," said Wayne Johnson, senior system engineer of
Siemens Power Generation.com.