Dell and Sun Microsystems Announce Solaris 10 Distribution Agreement

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2007

ROUND ROCK, Texas & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Dell and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVAD) have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.

The multi-year distribution agreement was announced live from Oracle OpenWorld, where Sun President and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and Dell Chairman and CEO, Michael Dell, are keynote speakers. With this announcement, Dell is expanding the range of enterprise-class operating systems it offers to its customers and Sun is expanding the reach of its Solaris OS.

As part of the relationship, Dell and Sun will cooperate on system certification and the development of offerings based on Solaris and Dell solutions. In addition, Dell and Sun have agreed to work together to secure support from key ISVs for Solaris on Dell PowerEdge servers. Both companies will work to ensure the combination of Dell PowerEdge servers and the Solaris OS delivers customer choice and value for applications that demand reliability, security, scalability, performance and integrated virtualization.

"Dell's offering of Solaris redefines the market opportunity for both companies," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun Microsystems. "The relationship gives Dell broader reach into the global free software community with Solaris and OpenSolaris and gives Sun access to channels and customers across the volume marketplace."

"Part of our focus to simplify IT means delivering customers choice and by adding Solaris to our solutions set we are able to do that," said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell.

For more details on the agreement, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/dell or http://www.sun.com/news.> For more information on Solaris, visit: http://www.sun.com/solaris and for more information on Dell PowerEdge Servers, please visit http://www.dell.com/poweredge.> About Dell

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