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To: E_K_S who wrote (15060)	3/29/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 64865

SUN MICROSYSTEMS: Datamation and InfoWorld vote Sun Microsystems Starfire technical support best of best MAR 29, 1999, M2 Communications - PALO ALTO, CALIF. -- Sun Microsystems, a leading provider of network computing technology, walked away with top honors from Datamation and InfoWorld. The two publications named Sun the winner in key categories in their Product of the Year issues. Sun Enterprise 10000, also known as Starfire, beat out offerings from Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM to win the prestigious 1999 Product of the Year award from Datamation in early March. Sun also outdistanced Dell, Novell, IBM and Apple to finish first in InfoWorld 1998 Product of the Year issue for best Technical Support in February. The two honors underscore Sun continued success in developing products and services to support its "anytime, anywhere" Internet computing model. Industry analysts, consultants and IT professionals who voted on the Datamation award gave the Enterprise 10000 superior ratings for its RAS (reliability, availability, scalability) features and power. They also praised the product for its ease of management and application consolidation capabilities, both of which can cut IT cost for end users. In addition to the product excellence of the Enterprise 10000, Sun was recognized for its technical service. In its 1998 Product of the Year competition, InfoWorld selected Sun to receive its highest honor in the Technical Support category after readers enthusiastically applauded the skills and determination of Sun engineers in solving problems not only on Sun equipment, but non-Sun equipment as well. "At Sun, we constantly push to improve our product and service offerings. The award from Datamation tells us that we are moving in the right direction. Our next critical mission is bringing the best practices of the mainframe world into the UNIX environment through our vision, Datacenter.com." said John Shoemaker, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Desktop and Server Systems, Sun Microsystems. Meg Heller, director, Technical Services, Sun Microsystems, added, "In receiving the InfoWorld award, Sun is being recognized for its world class support of heterogeneous environments. This award validates the support infrastructure and service offerings we developed to give customers the service solutions they want." Products vying for positions in the top spots faced tough criteria from both publications. Datamation readers evaluated products that increased sales through better customer analysis and product development; increased profitability by cutting time to the market; reduced costs through higher non-IT staff productivity; increased value of the organization assets; and reduced costs through lower inventory requirements. InfoWorld editors and analysts evaluated products from its Test Center Comparisons or product reviews. Copies of the Datamation and InfoWorld articles can be found on the URLs: datamation.com l and infoworld.com r/990215ef.htm. About the Enterprise 10000 Server The industrial-strength Enterprise 10000, or Starfire, server provides up to eight Dynamic System Domains - Sun is the only UNIX vendor to offer this feature. The Starfire server enables customers to run the most demanding, multi-terabyte applications for data warehousing, decision support, online transaction processing and data analytics on a single, scalable server. The system hosts more than 12, 700 applications for the Solaris Operating Environment and can be clustered with up to four nodes for even greater uptime. The Enterprise 10000 server contains up to 64 GB of shared memory and can support more than 20 TB of storage to confidently handle the most extreme data warehousing situations. About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The ComputerTM," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $10.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com. -0- (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTDCONTACT: David Blackburn, Sun Microsystems Tel: +1 650 786 4681 e-mail: dave.blackburn@sun.com Marla Dierkes Tel: +1 650 596 2296 e-mail: Marla@thomaspr.com M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES. Powered by Quoteserver.com Software Copyright c 1998 Thunderstone

To: E_K_S who wrote (15060)	3/29/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Sonki	Respond to of 64865

NEW YORK--America Online and Sun Microsystems tomorrow will give details about the business software licensing arrangement that's a key part of AOL's purchase of Netscape. news.com

To: E_K_S who wrote (15060)	3/29/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Eric, what a company! I was surprised that the company responded to you so quickly. first of all, you need to break down sunw revenue in 3 sections and i don't think sunw gives this info. clearly, that is why i say sunw extreemly under priced. + future potenials of e-commerce from amzon and alike. sunw will give turn key solutions to amazon-wantabeees. sunw price to sales 4.5, pe 53 compare that to other storage biz. server/storage buizness: emc p/s sales 14.6 and pe 82.sw biz: java & solaris : msft p/s 25.3 pe 76 hw biz : ibm /hwp /cpq / dell? ibm p/s= 1.7 pe varies 38-70? ibm reven grwoth is 7 % cpu : intc intc p/s = 6.9 don't understand why emc price to sales and pe are so high compare to the technology that sunw offers. i would say sunw storage biz not as great as emc but still not far behind.