Record -Setting Benchmark Proves Superior Performance
The Sun Fire V890 server, based on the UltraSPARCIV 1.
Through the world record Lotus Domino R6iNotes benchmark, the Sun Fire
V890 server delivers 16.35GHz UltraSPARC IV processors can be mixed and matched with
1.rem@ogilvypr. The IBM
iSeries 570 server (16 Power 5 processors), running OS/400 V5R3 and
Lotus Domino 6.2 configured in 10 partitions achieved 28,500 users,
24,145 NotesMark tpm, and 269 ms average response time.

About Sun's Business Intelligence Data Warehouse
Sun's offering for the BIDW industry builds on the enterprise-class,
virtually unparalleled security and scalability of the industry 's #1 UNIX(R)
Operating System, Solaris(tm). UNIX is a
registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively
licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. in the US and other countries . Offering a complete enterprise hardware, OS and software package, Sun
is also the only enterprise infrastructure company to offer a legal guarantee
of binary compatibility to customers for the past five releases of the Solaris
Operating System. in the United States and other countries.org
LINPACK "N" Sun Fire E6900 (24 1.

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Over 2x Application Throughput and 34 Percent Better Price/Performance
on Solaris (TM) Servers on UltraSPARC(R) Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif. This enables several primary
customer benefits: enhanced price/performance significantly increases the
product's value proposition, while the versatile architecture helps deliver
investment protection , significant deployment agility and improved risk
management. "Today's announcement is further
evidence of Sun's commitment to the Solaris OS for SPARC platform roadmap to
deliver throughput computing to optimize customer workloads and increase
application performance in the datacenter. In conjunction with
Solaris OS, Sun's servers for the UltraSPARC platform deliver higher
performance, utilization , security and RAS (reliability, availability and
serviceability) allowing IT groups to better meet Service Level Agreements.com

Kimberly Rem
Ogilvy PR for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Fire V480,
configured with 4P/16GB memory = $58,995, produced a score of 31. It was accomplished developing and applying a TCO model to identify
software, hardware and personnel costs over time .
A copy of the Ventana Research study and additional Sun BIDW brochures are
available on the World Wide Web at:
http://www."
"A rack of our UltraSPARC III-based servers have now been reduced to the
space of a single file cabinet -- with no need to recode or recompile in order
to upgrade to Sun's new UltraSPARC IV+ servers," said Chuck Sears, Director,
Research Computing, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Sciences (COAS). Sun's new UltraSPARC IV+ processor line is providing a unique landscape,
which can't be compared to anything in the marketplace today .com/news .

Benchmark Footnotes:
Manugistics Fulfillment 7 Sun Fire E6900 server, 50 ,660,623 SKUs/hr, 24
1.5.5GHz,
POWER5), 4 partitions, AIX 5L, Lotus Domino 6.

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35 GHz processor and the leading
Solaris OS.
UltraSPARC IV processor-based Sun Fire mid-range servers deliver more than
7x the performance of UltraSPARC II servers(1), while offering greater
scalability, RAS and investment protection with lower operating costs. For more information, please visit
http://sun. The benchmark results stated above reflect
results published on http:/www. The results
reflect results published on http://www.
-- On Storage: Sun had lower costs associated with storage.
Personnel -- The personnel component of these configurations includes any
external contractors and required employee labor to support the data
warehouse. This includes the Solaris platform on AMD
Opteron, SPARC(R) and Intel processor-based systems, Sun StorEdge(TM) arrays,
and spanning the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System and Sun Java Desktop System.

Pricing and Availability
The new Sun Fire Servers running the USIV+ processors are immediately
available and began shipping in late August.2, 34,000 users, $10.

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(4) In addition, the UltraSPARC IV-based system delivers the
leading number of users per processor for servers equipped with more than 2
processors. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun. Some of the world 's largest
business intelligence data warehouse (BIDW) systems run on the Sun platform to
achieve greater business agility and performance, while reducing overall
operational costs. only $182K for comparable data warehouse TB
configuration on the Sun system.


Hardware Configurations Sun NCR Teradata

Data Warehouse Size 2 TB 4 TB 10 TB 2 TB 4 TB 10 TB
Server E6900 E20K E25K 5380 5380 5380
CPU 12 20 44
Nodes 6 11 28
Storage 13.6


Software -- The software components include operating system, backup
software, monitoring and enterprises to support the data warehouse; in
addition, NCR Teradata directly supplies the relational database management
system (RDBMS), and Sun depends on its partners for the RDBMS (Oracle, in this
situation). Products bearing SPARC trademarks are
based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sun Microsystems
(SUNW) today announced the release of Sun Fire(TM) servers powered by new
UltraSPARC IV+(R) processors .5 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors and
run the most advanced operating system in the world, Solaris 10.
"During the testing activity of our Nortel Wireless Network Management
System (W-NMS) using Sun's new Sun Fire V890 server running UltraSPARC IV+
processors, we have noticed significant performance improvements over the
previous UltraSPARC III based server," said Alain Barlier, OAM Solution
Architect for Nortel.

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to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware , software and services that
make the Net work. in the United States and other countries.notesbench .sun.com/bidw.
SAS and other leading software vendors have also fine-tuned each of their
mission -critical applications to work with the new top-performing Sun Fire
servers. IBM p5-590, 38,419,200 SKUs/hr, 32
1.
More info http://www.

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Full binary and application compatibility allows risk reduction as customers
deploy new applications, services and infrastructure.html .com/servers/highend .com

(1) The Sun Fire E6900 server achieved a SPECint_rate2000 of 364 and the
Sun Fire 6800 server achieved a SPECint_rate2000 of 180.

, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.3m for 2 TB, $4. The BIDW Workshop, Planning and
Configuration, and Architecture Design services help leverage the findings of
the TCO analysis, as well assessing existing skill sets and interoperability
in the existing infrastructure.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun has also proved additional compelling performance comparisons against
competitors:

-- On SPECjbb2000 the 24-way Sun Fire E6900 outperforms 32-way Itanium-
based HP servers, a 32-way Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 1500, and a 16-way IBM
p5-570.

New Systems Deliver for Customers
DaimlerChrysler, DoubleClick/Abacus, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Nortel,
Oregon State University and Transat A.65GHz, POWER5), 10
partitions, OS/400, Lotus Domino 6.5 GHz US IV+) 126.

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1 configured in 4 partitions achieved
16,600 users at $12.2m for 4 TB and $12. Storage
technology includes cabinets, racks, cables.2 68 7. Sun offers a TCO Analysis, as well as a variety of BIDW offerings that
leverage Sun's BIDW best practices. "Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same
power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new
Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation."

World-Record Benchmarks
The new UltraSPARC IV+ processor based Sun Fire servers deliver up to five
times the performance increase over UltraSPARC III systems.

Applications that "Just Run"
"This announcement of yet another no-hassle SPARC system upgrade provides
great asset protection to Sun's huge base of applications and customers ," said
Gordon Haff, senior analyst, Illuminata. Pricing starts at $30,995(2).manugistics.89GHz
663 ,133 JBB ops/sec; IBM p5-570 16-way 1.

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35 GHz processor, available immediately, gives customers over 2x the
throughput(1) at 34 percent better price/performance when compared to the
fastest UltraSPARC III systems, and can be mixed and matched with previous
UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC IV processors (2). Sun has unmatched binary compatibility and there are over 8,000
Solaris applications.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, Java, and
The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC
trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SPARC International, Inc.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Carrie Kasten
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
415-677-2708
kimberly.
In the study, Ventana Research used total cost of ownership as a tool to
understand the full scope of data warehousing costs and how it can reduce
budget surprises and mitigate risk . The cost variance between
Sun and NCR Teradata's was $2. For instance,
the study found the cost of 2 TB of data storage on the NCR Teradata system
was more than $500K vs. For the purposes of this research and analysis, Ventana
Research categorized the relevant cost categories into three main groupings:
hardware, software and personnel. Upgrading with Sun servers costs
half as much as it does with an IBM system and these new systems offer better
price/performance than servers using IBM's POWER5 processors and AIX operating
system.
SPECjbb2000 Sun Fire E6900(24 chips, 48 cores) 747,791 JBB ops/sec,
submitted for review; Fujitsu PP1500(32 chips, 32 cores) 32-way 1.

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35 GHz processor upgrade gives customers enhanced
throughput computing power on the Sun Fire(TM) V490 , V890, Sun Enterprise(TM)
2900, 4900, 6900, 20000 and 25000 servers.
The new 1.(5)
For more information on the new 1.spec.

About This Study
Ventana Research, a leading research and advisory services firm in data
warehousing, business intelligence and performance management and Consensure,
a leading business and economic case software and services company, conducted
this research into data warehousing TCO to provide insight on the costs and
cost variances between two large suppliers - Sun Microsystems and NCR
Teradata.spec.org. Results
as of 09/19/05 on http: //www.

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Sun Boosts System Performance to Optimize Data Center Workloads

(Nasdaq: SUNW) today reinforced its commitment to the SPARC(R) platform,
Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) and optimizing its systems to run
multithreaded, data-centric workloads by boosting performance across its
popular UltraSPARC IV processor-based server family.
347-534-2093
carrie.2m for 10
TB.
These new offerings deliver the industry's only "on the fly" upgrade path
that allows customers to leverage the binary compatibility of the UltraSPARC
microprocessor and the Solaris Operating System to quickly and easily take
advantage of the latest server technology.S.

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About Sun Microsystems, Inc . The Sun Fire
V890 server achieved a SPECfp_rate2000 of 161 and the 8 processor Sun
Enterprise 4500 server achieved a SPECfp_rate2000 of 20.

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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Fire
V890/E6900 server results submitted to SPEC for review on 02/17/05.
The study concluded that the large gap in costs between Sun and NCR
Teradata is due in part to the flexibility and openness of the Sun
architecture, which requires less expensive professional services, as there
are more available resources for adding storage, CPUs and configuration of
Sun-related systems than there are for NCR Teradata. Customers can engage with Sun for a BIDW
Total Cost of Ownership analysis by contacting Sun at http://www.
Since its inception in 1982 , a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc.molini@sun .
"We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible
performance gains ," said David Yen, executive vice-president, Sun's Scalable
Systems Group.
Oregon State University 's COAS department uses Sun technology for a
variety of 'grand challenge' applications like weather modeling, global
climate simulations and forest fire forecasting.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- guides Sun in
the development of technologies that power the world 's most important markets.
SPEC, SPECjbb, are reg TM of the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation .5.1 Gflops; See
http://performance.

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35GHz UltraSPARC IV processors and world
record performance benchmarks, visit http://www.kasten@sun.4 36.com

Dan Dent
Citigate Cunningham
617-374-4233
ddent@citigatecunningham.
"This introduction makes it clear that SPARC and Power are going
head-to-head, now that IBM and Dell have de-comitted to Itanium and Hewlett
Packard has effectively end-of-lifed HP-UX. "With Sun's rock solid Solaris 10 Operating
System and binary compatibility, the system and applications 'just ran' when
we installed it. Subscribe to Sun
newswire at http://sun.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc.5 GHz Itanium2 (32 chips,
32 cores) 574,912 JBB ops/sec;HP rx8620(32 chips, 32 cores) 32-way 1.5GHz US IV+, 96GB), 4
partitions, Solaris 10, Lotus Domino 6 .2, 17,400 users, $10.

This is the category for Sun Microsystems' Solaris 2.

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com . in the United States and other countries.notesbench. This research provides
direct insight into potential financial savings , but requires learning how to
use the savings to reach maximum benefit in the organization.
-- Sun Fire E6900 server achieved a world record on Manugistics
Fulfilment on Oracle9i (R) Database and Oracle real application
clusters, demonstrated a 32% performance advantage and a 2. The Sun Fire V890 delivered 18% better $/user than the
IBM p5-570 and 49% better performance.T.

(1) Gartner Quarterly Server Tracking Numbers (Q2 '05)
(2) All prices are quoted in U.5M, 24,145 NotesMark tpm, 269ms avg rt; IBM p5-570 (8x1.19 per
user, 14,740 NotesMark tpm, 270ms avg rt; More info http://www.9GHz POWER5) 103.

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5 percent more users per processor than proprietary
IBM Power5 systems and the best overall price/performance in the mid-range
class of servers.com /servers/midrange and
http://www.sun.spec.7,
resulting in $ per SPEC of $1,861.2, resulting in $ per
SPEC of $1,220

(3) Sun Fire V890 server (8 UltraSPARC IV processors) running the Solaris
OS and Lotus(R) Domino 6.

Sun Microsystems Outpaces NCR Teradata in Data Warehouse TCO Study

Thousands of worldwide customers rely on the seamless,
scalable 64-bit Sun architecture to power their multi-terabyte class business
intelligence (BI) networks.

The TCO calculations in this research encapsulate the majority of key
factors and requirements for most data warehouse systems, according to the
Ventana study.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems , the Sun logo, Solaris, StorEdge, Java, and
The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems Servers With Solaris Operating System and UltraSPARC (R) Microprocessors Deliver up to Fivefold Performance Boost; Sun Captures Performance Le

Surprisingly IBM, HP, and Fujitsu have not published
results on this important new benchmark that demonstrates Java
server performance."

Innovation Only Sun Can Deliver
The new Sun Fire servers with UltraSPARC IV+ processors are unique in the
industry:

-- Only Sun gives customers the ability to mix-and-match processor
speeds from different generations at native speeds;
-- Only Sun provides patented uniboard technology, with up to four
processors and 32 gigabytes of memory per board: Customers can
simply "hotplug" the new uniboards into existing systems and without
having to swap out their entire system;
-- Only Sun offers binary compatibility across multiple generations of
systems using UltraSPARC processors and the Solaris Operating
System.

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, SunFire and The
Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.9 GHz POWER5(8 chips, 16 cores, 32
threads), 633,106 JBB ops/sec; HP Superdome 32-way 1.

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(Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that a study by Ventana Research found Sun
outpaces NCR Teradata in delivering the best total cost of ownership (TCO) for
enterprise-class terabyte data warehousing.7x
price/performance advantage over the IBM p5-590.
-- For scientific computing on the LINPACK "N" benchmark, the Sun Fire
E6900 also outperformed a 1.
SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire E4900 184,418 bops, submitted for review.

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Sun also unveiled a new world -record benchmark the enhanced platform has
already achieved, further demonstrating the best-in-class results made
possible by the combination of the new 1. Solaris 10 delivers unparalleled availability ,
performance and security -- all at an extremely competitive price.com/ibb/promos/USIVpromo.05GHz and 1.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems , Inc.org/cpu2000/results/ .

(4) The Notesbench R6iNotes benchmark published as of 02/15/05 results can
be found at http://www. Sun's
hardware and storage cost per TB was found to be less than half the price of
NCR Teradata's, and Sun posted an overall cost savings advantage that
continued to improve over time.

Key Findings

-- On Overall Cost: Sun delivered higher overall savings versus NCR
Teradata for similar data warehouse configuration.

For More Information:

Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems
408-276-6105
terri.com.notesbench.plant@sun.

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The new UltraSPARC IV
1. Each of the upgraded servers will
be compatible with the latest version of Solaris in order to take full
advantage of all its new features and functionality while supporting existing
versions to ensure customer's investments are protected. All processors run at their rated speeds,
further enabling customers to take advantage of higher performance while
increasing agility and efficiency. Results stated above
reflect results published on http://www. The study found Sun's terabyte data
warehouse solution costs were substantially lower than NCR Teradata's. are just a handful of the many
customers who have tested UltraSPARC IV+ and seen performance increases and
better ROI with the new systems.5 GHz US IV+ processor , StorEdge 3510/6120, Solaris 10, Oracle9i Database R2
and Oracle real application clusters.2, 28 ,500 users, $/Perf not required
above cost of $0.5.

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For
customers using UltraSPARC II technology , Sun is offering double trade-in
values for upgrades to UltraSPARC IV technology through its Sun (SM) Upgrade
Advantage Program.org as of 02/17/05.5.notesbench.
The Sun BIDW platform offers a flexible and low-cost architecture and is
deployed at more than 2000 customers worldwide. And of the two, only SPARC
benefits from the features and volume of the open source Solaris 10 operating
system, which supports industry-standard servers from Sun as well as IBM, HP
and Dell," said Jonathan Schwartz, President of Sun Microsystems.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at sun. in the United States and other countries.org.2, 26,000 users, $8.

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"Sun reinforces its vision to create the next-generation datacenter
providing customers with technology innovation and the best price/performance
through its UltraSPARC processor -based servers," said Sun's David Yen,
executive vice president, Scalable Systems.2GHz UltraSPARC IV processor-based servers and UltraSPARC III
processor-based Sun Fire servers.5.
Hardware -- The server hardware components include servers and any
required interfaces, cables, adapters or other server-related options. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware , software and services that
make the Net work.com .com

Complementing the momentum created by last
week's announcement of the new x64 systems code-named "Galaxy", Sun affirmed
its place as the world's leading UNIX server vendor(1) by offering customers
up to a fivefold increase in performance over previous UltraSPARC processor
generations. Sun also
announced a series of world-record benchmarks for performance and scalability
that surpasses competing servers from IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
-- The Sun Fire E2900 server achieved an overall world record on IBM's
own Lotus Domino R6iNotes benchmark, with 34,000 users, producing
the highest number of NotesMark transactions /min (28,268 N-Mark).
This result beats the IBM i5-570 in performance by 19% at half the
price per user.
-- The Sun Fire V890 server achieved world-record price/performance for
servers with more than 2 sockets on IBM's Lotus Domino R6iNotes
benchmark .
This new system significantly helps Nortel to increase the capacity of our
solutions, allowing the management of additional network elements with fewer
servers, and therefore, enhancing the value proposition for our own
customers. $/Perf calculated using discounted list prices (IBM DDR2).org /benchmark/performance.

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, Sun Microsystems,
Inc."

Double the Throughput and 34 Percent Better Price/Performance
Sun's UltraSPARC IV 1.9.
For the latest SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results, visit
http://www.

(2) Price/performance based on $ per SPECint_rate2000 .18 per user, 14,020 NotesMark tpm, and 464 ms
average response time. Ventana Research Finds Sun Has a 2-to-1 Price/Performance Advantage Over
NCR Teradata

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun.
"We're getting faster performance with the new UltraSPARC IV+ Sun Fire
V890 server over our previous UltraSPARC III system that had twice as many
processors," continued Sears .

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.1GHz
Itanium2, 601,352 JBB ops/sec; Results as of 09/19/05 on http://www.
NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire E2900 (12x1.1 Gflops; IBM p5-570
(16 1.com.

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35 GHz platform,
outperforms IBM Power5 on the Lotus Domino R6iNotes(3) benchmark in users per
processor.

(5) Mixed CPU support offered on the Sun Fire V1280, 4800, 6800, 12K, 15K ,
E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K, E25K servers.
-- On Professional Services: The study revealed that professional
services offered by Sun, combined with Oracle, which provides the RDBMS
software in the Sun system, typically costs less than 50% of the specialized
resources for NCR .6 14.
Sun Microsystems also offers a comprehensive total cost of ownership (TCO)
analysis to help plan budgets, forecast business benefits, and minimize
deployment risks for architecting business intelligence data warehousing
(BIDW). in the United States and other countries.New UltraSPARC IV+ Processors, the Solaris 10 Operating System Deliver Binary
Compatible 'On-the-Fly' Upgrades for Customers With Greater Business Value,
Better Return-on-Investment

SANTA CLARA, Calif.5.5GHz US IV+), 4
partitions, Solaris 10, Lotus Domino 6.

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org as of 02/15 /05.6 27.9GHz IBM p5-570 by 22%. "The same software applications running on old servers
have been easily and quickly ported to new servers, with no recompilation. These benefits will help reduce our overall data center
management costs, including savings of up to three to five man years
associated with code conversion. That translates into serious cost savings for
us.65GHz POWER5.com.34 per user ,
21,904 NotesMark tpm, 586ms avg rt; IBM i5-570 (16x1.

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These UltraSPARC IV and Solaris
OS-based systems deliver Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT), driving over
double the application throughput and 34 percent better price/performance in
the same physical footprint as its predecessors, which helps reduce the cost
and complexity of doing business for Sun's customers.org as of 02/15/05.org . All SPARC trademarks are used under
license and are trademark or registered trademarks of SPARC International,
Inc.
Available for purchase immediately, the new Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900 ,
E4900 and E6900 servers are powered by 1. Sun also
establishes its products as the leader in performance and price/performance as
demonstrated by a series of world-record benchmarks (see footnotes ):

-- Sun Fire E4900 server achieved world-record performance for
SPECjbb2005 ., Inc.

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sun. SPEC and
the benchmark names SPECint and SPECfp are registered trademarks of
the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun Fire V490, configured with
4P /32GB memory = $75,995, produced a score of 65. The study found Sun outranked NCR
Teradata in the categories most important to enterprises looking to build and
maintain a terabyte- (TB) class business intelligence data warehouse (BIDW)
infrastructure, including initial purchase price, upgrades, and maintenance,
and costs associated with personnel, hardware and software.
-- On Upgrades: Sun provides a more cost-effective, low-risk method for
adding storage and CPUs into its SMP-architected Sun server technology than
NCR Teradata, with its massively parallel processing (MPP) approach.sun .com/executives/iforce/bidw/index.html . All SPARC
trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SPARC International, Inc. Dollars.spec.37 per user,
28,268 NotesMark tpm, 1368ms avg rt; Sun Fire V890 (8x1.netlib.ps

Contact: Alex Plant of Sun, +1-650-786 -3385, or alex.

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