Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Receives Top Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for DTrace TechnologySun's UltraSPARC T1 Niagara Processor with "CoolThreads" Technology Honored as a Runner-Up in the Energy and Power Innovations Category SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 13, 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.(Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology, a key feature in the freely available open source Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), has been honored with the top prize in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards. The Wall Street Journal also recognized, as a runner-up in the Energy and Power innovations category, the UltraSPARC T1 with CoolThreads technology, as the world's first eco-responsible processor. Sun has been widely praised for it's introduction of these and many other key technologies. In the last year, these efforts have been the success behind the company's ongoing open source strategy. For more information, please go to: http://sun.com/opensource.
DTrace was singled out for its breakthrough, realtime approach to troubleshooting production systems, shortening problem identification time from days or weeks to hours or even minutes and real-world application performance improvements of up to 30x. Since the introduction of Solaris 10 in January 2005, Sun has shipped more than 5 million registered licenses - more than its competitors have shipped collectively during the same time frame. Customers can access many other innovations in Solaris 10, including Solaris Containers, Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris ZFS through the no cost download at sun.com/solaris. Solaris 10 is supported on over 700 systems from vendors as diverse as Sun, HP, IBM and Dell. UltraSPARC T1 is the first open source microprocessor architecture built specifically for the massive participative Web 2.0 infrastructure build out. It delivers industry breakthrough performance and unmatched energy and space savings. The combination of both DTrace and chip multi-threading in the UltraSPARC T1 are being recognized as key enabling technologies Sun is offering for free to fuel the Web 2.0 build out. This is the second time in the past three years that Sun has received the prestigious gold award. In 2004, Sun Microsystems Laboratories' Proximity Communications Project was recognized for a new method for chips to transmit data inside a computer up to 100 times faster than today's top speed. "Winning The Wall Street Journal's gold prize for best technology innovation worldwide highlights Sun's leadership in innovation that delivers world class solutions for enterprise and web deployments," said Rich Green, executive vice president, Software, Sun Microsystems. "Licensed as a freely available open source operating system, Solaris 10 is part of Sun's broad line of software - that includes platforms for SOA, Identity and web solutions which bring together enterprise class security, availability and performance with free and open source transparency." More than 600 nominations were submitted for The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards. For the awards, now in their sixth year, judges considered novel, cutting-edge technologies from around the world in several categories: medicine and medical devices, wireless, security, consumer electronics, semiconductors and others. In selecting winners, judges considered whether the technology truly represents a breakthrough from conventional methods, rather than just an incremental improvement. For full details on the award, on the Net: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115755300770755096-Puh3Kr2L9dGEhvkWyO94UivIRwA_20070910.html 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, Solaris, CoolTheads, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Press Release Finder
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