Announcing Sun .Com Consulting Practice; Sun Professional Services Answers 'How' To Put The 'Dot' in .Com

Business Wire, Sept 8, 1999

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1999--

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) today announced the worldwide availability of Sun(TM) .Com Consulting services for customers who have decided to dot-com their businesses. The new practice builds on the success of Sun Professional Services Internet infrastructure and application architecture services to help customers enable their businesses for the net economy.

Sun .Com Consulting services deliver the promise of next-generation eBusiness solutions including the service driven network. These .com services are focusing on helping plan, architect and implement .Com solutions for portal computing, service providers, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and eCommerce solutions.

"We're focused on providing companies with the 'Net and eBusiness technologies that can impact the profitability and competitiveness of their business--helping enable them for the Net economy," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Sun .Com Consulting practice. "We're aggressively adding Web application architecture and integration to our eCommerce business and we're strengthening our agreements with system integrators and eBusiness partners. We've focused the practice on dot-com'ing technology solutions because we think Web enablement is fundamentally changing every aspect of business, not just the traditional segments like supplier and customer management. Our .Com customers represent the future of business."

"Companies today are looking at digital eTransformation. By working with Sun Professional Services, KPMG Consulting helps customers look into the future. We help enable them to make it to the next level. Teaming with Sun provides KPMG's clients with an eBusiness model that can match and scale to their vision," stated Keyur Patel, Global Partner-in-Charge eBusiness KPMG.

"It's crucial that our eBusiness customers feel confident about uptime and predictable site performance. Sun .Com Consulting technology, along with Resonate, addresses these issues for our customer architectures. Having a recognized Internet leader like Sun working with Resonate adds even more validity to our already proven solutions. Sun provides Resonate the opportunity to quickly extend our reach and provide reliable uptime to a broader client base," said Cameron Lorentz, vice president of worldwide sales for Resonate.

Together, Sun/Netscape Alliance Professional Services and Sun Professional Services have assisted numerous organizations, such as GTE Network Commerce Platform, with the building of next generation, e-commerce solutions.

"Sun Professional Services provides us with the ability to offer our customers end-to-end eCommerce solutions. Their leadership in architecting Internet infrastructure environments for large-scale global systems complements our experience in architecting and building complex Internet solutions. We will continue to combine the expertise of Sun's new .Com practice with our Internet strategy and iPlanet(TM) software solutions to help our customers compete in the Net Economy," said Randy Favero, Vice President, Alliance Professional Services. For more information on Sun Professional Service and Sun .Com Consulting go to www.sun.com/service/sunps/comsvcs.> For a live webcast of the Sun .Com Consulting press conference please go to www.sun.com/webcast/consult/index.html.> 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 more than $11.5 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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