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To: bob zagorin who wrote (548)	6/20/2000 1:30:00 PM
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Sun Microsystems Supports J.D. Edwards' New Collaborative Commerce Strategy Sun's Real-World E-Business Solutions Aligned With J.D. Edwards' Compelling Freedom' Promise to Customers DENVER, FOCUS 2000 USER CONFERENCE, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced its support for J.D. Edwards' (Nasdaq: JDEC) bold entrance into C-Commerce, the wave beyond e-business. Ed McVaney, president, CEO and chairman of J.D. Edwards unveiled J.D. Edwards' new collaborative commerce (C-Commerce) strategy, today during Focus 2000, the annual user group conference. (See related announcement from J.D. Edwards, June 20, 2000). Sun Microsystems will move forward with J.D. Edwards as it introduces a new level of freedom to its customers by delivering open, collaborative technologies that allow communication among vendors, suppliers and customers across the supply chain. These new technologies, along with Sun's market-leading network computing and e-commerce solutions, are designed to produce sustainable competitive advantage for mutual customers. Allowing event-driven business processes to flow openly between complementary technologies establishes trust between partners, drives adoption of web-based commerce technologies and helps to ensure effective order fulfillment, all key elements of successful business-to-business activities for all companies, including digital exchanges. "Today's business success demands the interoperability of disparate technologies," said Jeffrey Greenwald, director of ERP and Supply Chain, Market Development, Sun Microsystems. "Through its new C-Commerce strategy, J.D. Edwards is paving the way to the future with standards-based, open, collaborative technologies that will help our mutual customers to adopt best of breed technologies into existing systems quickly and easily." "J.D. Edwards looks forward to embracing the future of C-Commerce with Sun Microsystems," said Cathie Frazzini, director of worldwide consulting alliances at J.D. Edwards. "Together, we will successfully empower our customers to adopt the next wave of dynamic business by delivering freedom from proprietary standards, freedom to adopt new technologies into an open, collaborative architecture and freedom of interoperability between all applications." With similar commitment to network computing, decades of experience in technology innovation and industry leadership positions, Sun Microsystems and J.D. Edwards together deliver the leading-edge technologies and world-class enterprise services essential for the rapid implementation of flexible, network-centric ERP/SCM solutions. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network is The Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $14.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com. NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. SOURCE Sun Microsystems, Inc. CO: Sun Microsystems, Inc.; J.D. Edwards & Co. ST: California, Colorado IN: MLM CPR SU: LIC 06/20/2000 13:00 EDT prnewswire.com