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Event: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) today announced the SPARC(R) Enterprise T5440 server, the first server to deliver the scalability and reliability of traditional midrange systems with the breakthrough performance and radical energy efficiency of the UltraSPARC(R) T2 Plus architecture. More information on the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is available at http://www.sun.com/T5440 and http://www.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise.

While competitive systems from IBM and HP cost as much as 80 percent more or deliver as little as 1/4 the performance, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) delivers world-record performance and enables customers to consolidate and virtualize midrange applications, including large scale OLTP databases, CRM and ERP. In a compact 4U package, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server increases server utilization while reducing energy consumption and lowering operating costs. Additionally, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is the first chip multi-threaded (CMT) server to scale up to four processors.

Continuing the innovation of the SPARC platform both in terms of energy efficiency and cost, has to be a good thing for the market in terms of competition and the end user community in terms of choice. It will be interesting to see what the feedback is to the announcement, particularly in terms of performance and energy efficiency.

Remember that to gain the most performance (and efficiency) from your system (as with any platform), the application, storage, network and server all have to be optimized and configured.

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