Sun Microsystems Completes Aduva AcquisitionAcquisition Expands Sun's Grid Strategy Adding Update Services to Sun Grid Utility Service Offerings SANTA CLARA, CALIF. March 30, 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Aduva. With the completion of this transaction, Sun now owns Aduva, a leading provider of heterogeneous knowledge and analysis capabilities and technology for managing software update needs and compliance risk in the enterprise. Aduva's multi-platform services will be available for operation by individual customers behind their own firewalls, or as an automated Sun Grid Utility service. Sun will soon add update services to the many Sun Grid Utility Services it currently offers, including its basic Compute Utility, which is accessible over the Internet, Sun Grid Storage Utility and Sun Grid Developer Utility Services. Sun expects pricing and availability for the latest service feature of Sun Grid will be available within Sun's fiscal year 2007.
"The release of Sun Grid heralds a new beginning for the delivery of computing as a network service," said Stuart Wells, executive vice president, Utility Computing, at Sun Microsystems. "Going forward, we intend to expand the breadth and value of our service portfolio, beyond the computation services we've initially rolled out, to the patch management and automated update service offerings Aduva now enables for all Sun hardware and software products. Aduva allows us to fully automate complex patch management for multiple operating systems, as a service feature of Sun Grid, or managed and operated by our customers behind their firewalls and within their datacenters." By integrating the Aduva technology, Sun will deliver active dependency patch and update services for Solaris and Linux servers with a solution that scales from individual servers, up to large scale data centers with tens of thousands of machines in complex networks. With Aduva's technology, Sun can better help enterprises automate the processes associated with patch and dependency management, easing the burden on system administrators. Safe Harbor This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the future results or expected financial performance of Sun Microsystems, Inc. following the consummation of the acquisition, including Sun's ability to add update services to the many Sun Grid Utility services it currently offers, the availability of Aduva's multi-platform services, Sun's ability to deliver active dependency patch and update services for Solaris and Linux servers and deliver computing as a network service, Sun's ability to expand the breadth and value of its service portfolio and Sun's ability to fully automate complex patch management for multiple operating systems. Such statements are just predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results and performance may differ materially. Factors that might cause such a difference include the failure to successfully integrate Aduva and its employees into Sun and achieve expected synergies, compete successfully in this highly competitive and rapidly changing marketplace and retain key employees. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Sun's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Sun's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended September 25, 2005 and December 25, 2005. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Press Release Finder
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