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Did you know that Sun is a much different company than it was 2 years ago? We're growing again!

Take a look at some of the following eye-opening facts which you may not know about today's Sun Microsystems!

FOR EXAMPLE, DID YOU KNOW....?

Sun was the ONLY top vendor to grow worldwide total server revenue market share year over year, per IDC, in CY2006 Q2 while IBM, HP, and Dell all declined. Solaris triggered Sun's 15.5% year over year revenue growth and helped Sun overtake Dell for the #3 position in Worldwide Total Server Revenue (this is total server revenue on all operating systems combined, not just UNIX).

Sun used to compete in only the UNIX server market but now also competes in the x86/64 market where it moved up to the #6 position, per IDC, in 2005 and the first half of 2006. This is up from #9 in 2004, #15 in 2003, and #27 in 2002.

Sun's SunFire servers are based on both SPARC microprocessors (technology developed by Sun) and AMD Opteron processors.

Solaris 10 is Open Source. Solaris is free for anyone to download off Sun's website. Users only need to pay if they want service and support and Sun's pricing for service and support is lower than Red Hat Linux.

Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor design (used in the SunFire T1000 and SunFire T2000) is Open Source and at least one startup firm has already built a variant of the processor.

Downloads of registered licenses of Solaris 10 have reached nearly 6 million since becoming available in March 2005, surpassing all licenses of previous versions of Solaris from prior years combined. Approximately 70% of the registered licenses are on platforms other than Sun (such as HP, Dell, and IBM), an indication of Solaris' ubiquitousness beyond Sun servers alone.

36% of the world's data are archived on Sun's StorageTek storage devices and, per IDC, Sun StorageTek is #1 for the 21st consecutive quarter in Total Tape automation revenue for Q2 CY2006.

Sun grew faster than HP, IBM, EMC,and Dell in the overall disk systems storage market in revenue, per IDC, for Q2 CY2006.

Over 1 Billion wireless handsets were sold last year and the majority run Java. Pervasiveness of Java-enabled devices is an important factor in driving demand for Sun's other technologies and services.

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