Sun Solaris Gains Momentum In The Appliance Computing Market With Scalable Network Cache Solution From Inktomi

Business Wire, Oct 27, 1999

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1999--

Sun Microsystems today announced that the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment has gained momentum as the most scalable and reliable platform for appliance class computing.

Through an agreement to supply Inktomi with the latest Solaris Operating Environment Intel Platform Edition, including advanced network acceleration technology for its Traffic Server Engine, Sun is aggressively meeting the growing market demand for appliance computing. This follows Sun's recent partnership with Oracle for their Raw Iron database server appliance and other appliance computing applications in the telecom, government, medical and aviation equipment markets. Solaris is a highly reliable, scalable and available platform making it the ideal choice for the fast growing appliance computing segment. The new relationship with Inktomi is further evidence of Sun's commitment to reliable, appliance-based services.

"Leveraging Sun's Solaris Operating Environment platform with the industry leading network cache offers customers all of the benefits of an appliance with an open, flexible architecture," said Paul Gauthier, chief technology officer of Inktomi. "Inktomi Traffic Server Engine integrated with Solaris offers service providers new opportunities to rapidly design and deploy robust network services."

"This agreement with Inktomi furthers Sun's commitment to the appliance computing market," says Rich Green, vice president, Solaris Products Group, Sun Microsystems. "Sun Solaris powering Inktomi Traffic Server provides the reliability, scalability and performance customers have traditionally come to expect from Sun."

Availability

Sun is committed to providing the Solaris Operating Environment as an appliance class computing platform to key markets, including high performance and scalable internet messaging servers and security solutions for both SPARC(TM) and Intel(TM) platforms. Pricing for appliance computing vendors varies according to functionality and number of copies purchased. Entry-level licenses begin at $99 with even lower prices for large volume customers.

About Solaris Product Line

The Solaris Operating Environment is reliable, highly scalable, Year 2000 compliant, and delivers expanded capabilities for workgroups, data centers and Internet Service Providers who need "anytime, anywhere" access to computing resources. The Solaris product line is the best network computing environment to support the business demands of today and the business innovations for tomorrow.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is the Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With $12.4 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.

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