SUN AND EBAY CELEBRATE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR WITH RECORD UPTIMESUN AND EBAY CELEBRATE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR WITH RECORD UPTIMESun Microsystems' Technology and Collaboration Instrumental For High-Availability
SANTA CLARA, CA -- December 20, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) and eBay are celebrating the sixth year of their relationship by looking back on a string of successful developments during 2001. Both companies agree that the highlight of the year was eBay's record performance during the third quarter when Sun and eBay delivered a record 99.9% site accessibility to the eBay community. "The strategic implementation of Sun's technology plays a critical role in the success of the eBay community," said Maynard Webb, president of eBay Technologies. "Sun powers our back-end systems and search infrastructure which has been pivotal in allowing us to deliver a record 99.9% uptime performance." Webb added that the third quarter performance levels produced by Sun and eBay are even more remarkable considering that the eBay site supported 250 million page views per day and sent out more than 1.2 giga-bits of data per second during peak usage during that period. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc., during the week of December 9, 2001, the number of average unique visitors to the eBay marketplace reached approximately 4.7 million in early December, representing a 57% increase over the same time in 2000. Mel Friedman, Sun's senior vice president of Customer Advocacy, credits the creation of the Sun Sigma project, which has helped facilitate communication and streamline the decision making process among eBay and its many technology vendors. "eBay users generate an unbelievable amount of activity," Friedman noted. "So we needed a method to help eBay, Sun and eBay's technology providers to move collaboratively and with the right data to support our decisions." Friedman said the level of communication and cooperation underlying Sun Sigma was unprecedented, but necessary. "We knew that efforts like launching a five company quality project would be the best way for Sun to help deliver the unprecedented availability to eBay's network." Based on the improved performance of eBay's network, the marketplace has extended its technology relationship with Sun by selecting and implementing Sun's technology and services to design and power its next-generation infrastructure platform to handle growing customer demands. eBay has selected the following Sun solutions:
J2EE Technology Provides a Fundamental Shift To an Open PlatformEarlier this year, eBay completed a comprehensive analysis by picking Java technology as the fundamental software architecture platform for its next-generation technology infrastructure. eBay cited the Java platform's open standards, flexibility, programmer productivity and its strong reputation as a reliable platform for managing high-volume transactions as the basis for its choice. eBay can take advantage of Java technology-based software from a wide variety of vendors, including Sun, which gives them the freedom of choice to help ensure that the eBay technology infrastructure can readily adapt to support transaction growth and the addition of new services that eBay develops or acquires. "Sun and eBay have had a very busy and successful year," said Sun's Friedman. "We look forward to another productive year in 2002." About eBayeBay is The World's Online Marketplace. Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay, as well as on Half.com, eBay's site dedicated to fixed price trading. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com
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