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WELCOME TO THE
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Connnecting Communities
CIPATION AGE.
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Nearly a quarter century ago, Sun was founded with one driving
vision. A vision of connecting everything, no matter who built it,
and everyone, no matter where they are. A vision of technology
that works for people — not the other way around.
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Throughout the years, we developed • The addition of our new StorageTek™ brand
technologies and products that power offers customers the industry’s broadest
everything from mobile phones and smart portfolio of storage and data management
cards to supercomputers and the Internet. solutions for storing information securely,
And we’ve shared our technologies with managing it intelligently, and providing
the worldwide community. ready access to it.
Today, we power the Participation Age — • Our UltraSPARC® and AMD Opteron™
the increasingly interactive and collaborative processor-based Sun Fire™ systems have
successor to the Information Age — where radically changed how industry-standard
the network no longer simply serves servers are thought of, with lower prices,
consumers or businesses, it creates increased performance, and greater
opportunities. We provide the breakthrough energy efficiency.
products, technologies, and services customers
need to connect to those opportunities. • Sun™ Grid is the ultimate instantiation
of our vision. It allows customers to
• The Solaris™ Operating System is the #1 purchase computing and storage power
UNIX® OS — and we’ve shared it with as they need it, without the long-term
the world by open sourcing our code costs of capital ownership, management,
at opensolaris.org. support, and real estate.
• In just ten short years, Java™ has become Our vision that The Network is the Computer™
the world’s #1 programming platform. has never been more true than today. And it
Today there are more than 4.5 million continues to be at the core of everything that
developers creating the next generation we do.
of applications.
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“Sun is taking its own ‘Share’ marketing campaign seriously and working more
closely with competitors than it ever has in the past. Agreements with EMC, IBM,
and Microsoft reflect a new day at Sun — Sun is sharing code, resources, and
even customers. Sun’s customers will get more choice with fewer compromises
and smaller integration headaches than ever.”
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Our beliefs in openness and sharing have technology powers more than 3 billion
been instrumental in our ability to create devices, including over 700 million PCs,
and deliver solutions that help customers over 1 billion mobile phones and other
be successful. In fact, you could say that handheld devices, over 1.25 billion smart
we were founded on these beliefs. cards, and a host of set-top boxes, printers,
games, and more.
Our first workstation was built using
off-the-shelf parts, including BSD UNIX • Java technology has become the essential
and TCP/IP, the protocol that drives the ingredient of the digital experience for
Internet. And it didn’t stop there. From NFS hundreds of millions of people across
to NetBeans™, Java to Jini™, StarOffice™ to the planet. Java.com is the interactive
OpenOffice, Solaris to OpenSolaris™, we’ve entertainment destination where over 14
continually created technologies that have million visitors each month experience
changed the world. And we’ve shared our the full power of desktop and mobile
technologies with the world — to encourage Java technology firsthand.
innovation and participation.
• We deliver our Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
• As the largest commercial contributor Operating Systems and developer tools
of open source code, and with more across the world, with no barrier to
than 1600 patents delivered to the adoption — or to building the future.
community at large, we are invested
in sharing technologies to create and • We open-sourced the StarOffice suite,
foster communities. contributing 7.5 million lines of code and
making it available free at OpenOffice.org.
• By sharing Java technology and taking And we continue to actively support
part in the Java developer community, ongoing development.
great minds worldwide have made Java
the most popular platform of all time. • The Java Community Process , NetBeans,
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SOFTWARE
Our software strategy is simple: provide you with • The Java Enterprise System is a revolutionary, • With Sun N1 systems management, customers
easy, no-cost access to the enterprise software you subscription-based approach to infrastructure can automate provisioning tasks and manage
need. That’s why we offer a proven portfolio of software that can help enterprises save millions their business services — as well as the systems
open, integrated, and interoperable software, avail- in software license fees and operational costs. on which these services run.
able individually or as a complete system, that runs It delivers the core enterprise applications and
across multiple platforms and environments. tools necessary to manage everything from • Sun Secure Global Desktop Software allows
development through deployment. Available for applications running on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX,
• The Solaris Enterprise System is the industry’s multiple platforms — including Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Windows platforms to be seamlessly
most complete, free, and open infrastructure HP-UX, and Windows — customers can choose and securely delivered to a wide variety of
platform. It combines and integrates a wealth of the fully integrated Java Enterprise System or client devices.
Sun’s award-winning and open-source software, from six individual Java System Suites that more
including the Solaris OS, Sun Java Enterprise specifically target their critical business challenges.
System and Sun Java System Suites, Sun N1™
management software, Sun developer tools, and
more. With the Solaris Enterprise System, we’ve
given customers no-cost, unencumbered access to Solaris Enterprise System
the most powerful and sophisticated enterprise Solaris 10 OS
Java Enterprise System/Java System Suites
software system on the planet.
• Java Application Platform Suite
• Java Availability Suite
• Solaris is the most advanced OS. It provides • Java Communications Suite
leading innovation with proven scalability, avail- • Java Integration Suite
ability, performance, and security on UltraSPARC, • Java Identity Management Suite
x64, and x86 platforms. Companies can depend • Java Web Infrastructure Suite
Sun Java and Sun Studio Developer Tools
on the Solaris foundation to build and manage
Sun N1 Management Software
business- and mission-critical services, with the
peace of mind that Solaris applications are
guaranteed to run on all new Solaris releases.
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STORAGE SERVICES
We are a storage market leader, and we protect • Our complete portfolio and leading security We believe our customers should be able to focus
and manage more digital archived data around capabilities provide a comprehensive and on business needs rather than on running data cen-
the world than anyone else. With a comprehensive secure foundation for information lifecycle ters. Because delivering customer satisfaction and
portfolio of storage and data management products, management. Through a holistic approach, shareholder value are far more important. When IT
coupled with world-class service, we provide integrat- we help customers develop all-inclusive ILM is delivered as a service, the services themselves can
ed solutions that enable customers to simplify their strategies that reduce risk and manage content become transparent — simpler, automated, and
IT infrastructure, reduce costs, and manage data complexity in the enterprise. Our ILM solutions user oriented — enabling customers to concentrate
intelligently and securely from creation to deletion. address every aspect of data throughout the on their business. At Sun, we believe the data center
information lifecycle, helping organizations of the future is a service, not a physical place. And
• Sun StorageTek products are trusted to store leverage information for maximum growth that future is quickly becoming reality.
and manage more of the world’s archived data and revenue.
than any other storage provider. Our extensive • We provide a worldwide services portfolio
tape portfolio covers a full spectrum of needs, designed for reliability, availability, manageability,
with solutions ranging from standalone tape serviceability, and growth. Our services scale with
drives to libraries with over 300,000 cartridges technology rather than consultants, helping
to virtual tape libraries. Our innovative tape customers focus on their core needs.
systems efficiently manage storage resources,
consolidate inefficient backup methods or data • Our managed and utility-based services, assess-
centers, and provide a comprehensive storage ments, and workshops exemplify choice, value,
strategy to address your business objectives. and control. Sun BluePrints™ guidelines, Reference
Architectures, and Customer Ready Systems help
• We offer a wide range of industry-leading reduce risk and complexity of deployment and
storage arrays designed to meet your storage provide investment protection and peace of mind.
requirements — from the desktop to the data
center. From direct-attached workgroup storage • To better link customers, partners, developers,
to network-attached departmental and enterprise and Sun, we built Sun Connection. This always-
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storage to full-scale SAN-attached data center available, secure connection delivers intelligent,
storage, we deliver one of the most complete network-based IT services through a simple yet
storage portfolios in the industry. With our best-in- powerful interface.
class solutions, you can manage, protect, access,
and store your business information across a het-
erogeneous environment — securely and safely.
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— Doug Kennedy
VP of Worldwide Alliances and Channels
Oracle Corporation
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Sun and Microsoft have established With the Sun Partner Advantage Program,
a technology collaboration that enables our network computing vision and experience,
platform interoperability. industry best practices, and the collective
wisdom of the partner community come
Sun and Fujitsu have expanded a together to help companies to compete
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Participation By People
At Sun, it’s our people, representing many Share the Opportunity is a global giving
human, cultural, and workplace perspectives, initiative with the goal of eliminating the
who drive our vision of being open and digital divide and increasing network
sharing resources. That’s why maintaining participation. It encompasses Sun’s world-
a culture of talented people is a requirement wide philanthropic efforts to increase network
to achieving our goal of building the most accessibility and provide opportunities
effective and powerful network for our global for global participation, economic growth,
community of customers, partners, and and social progress. Through Share the
employees. When the world’s best and Opportunity, we’ve joined forces with:
brightest come together, their different • The ONE Campaign, a movement against
opinions, experiences, and backgrounds AIDS and poverty
enhance the teamwork process and result • Oxfam America, to enlist more supporters
in better ideas. of the fair trade movement
• The Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit,
Sometimes it takes more than ideas or part of a global United Nations initiative
money to get something done — it takes to mobilize a new generation of leaders
bodies, a willingness to help, and time.
That’s why we strongly encourage our Participation With Responsibility
employees to lend their time, expertise, We believe it’s time for new levels of
and resources toward community activities. corporate and industry social responsibility.
That’s why we launched our Eco-Responsibility
Participation Through Sharing Initiative. We’re reexamining our company
In 1990, we established The Sun from all levels; everything from product
Microsystems Foundation, Inc., a separate design and manufacturing to recycling and
nonprofit charitable organization created workforce lifestyles. Our goal is to design and
to serve as the primary vehicle for Sun’s build technology that conserves more, costs
community investment efforts and to allow less, and gives our customers just what they
for international charitable contributions. need. It’s good for the IT industry, good for
Since its inception, the Foundation has our customers, and good for the planet.
contributed grants of Sun technology and
services to schools and nonprofit charitable
organizations that seek to increase
participation of underrepresented populations
in technology courses and careers.
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The Sun Partner Advantage Program gives partners the power to connect
to Sun and take advantage of the expertise, contacts, best practices, sales
experience, and technology know-how of a dynamic community. Join in.
Go to sun.com/partners.
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