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SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- The Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), recognizing the increasingly complex demands for handling and storing information, has named Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) as the Official Supplier of UNIX® Servers for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Sun's enterprise servers running the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment, along with its data storage systems, are the backbone of the information system at the Olympic Winter Games. The Sun systems are supported by Sun's world-class services, helping to deliver the high-availability demanded for the world's premier sporting event. Sun's hardware and services are part of an IT system that will provide results information to commentaries, media, 3,500 athletes and officials, and 70,000 spectators. ``The Salt Lake Organizing Committee named Sun because of its solid reputation for maintaining highly reliable computing environments,'' stated Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the committee. ``The success of the Olympic Winter Games will depend in part on collecting, processing and distributing information. That's where Sun's systems and services will play a key role in ensuring that people of all nations can stay on top of the teams' performances and standings.'' ``Sun is a leader in implementing and maintaining high-availability, mission-critical computer systems for customers all over the world,'' said Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and chief executive officer. ``We eat, breathe, and revel in a competitive environment, so we welcome the opportunity to support this pinnacle of fair competition.'' The Sun system solution is based on an open systems solution and represents a major departure from the model deployed at previous Olympic Games. The entire information system at the Olympic Winter Games is deployed using a consortium of 15 technology providers, integrated and managed by SchlumbergerSema, the Official Worldwide Information Technology Partner of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The information system will be used to capture and distribute a wide variety of time-sensitive information, such as timing and scoring results, team standings, medal standings, weather conditions and athlete biographies. This information will be distributed to the worldwide media, the Internet service provider, and to athletes and spectators at the Games through special kiosks located at the various Olympic venues and other locations throughout Salt Lake City. ``As the company responsible for the overall design, implementation, and integration of the information technologies infrastructure at the Winter Games, we know the value of going with the best in all phases of this complex solution,'' stated Robert Cottam, chief integrator, SchlumbergerSema. ``We are pleased that Sun -- with its world-class experience and reputation for providing open network, mission-critical systems -- was named by SLOC as the supplier of the project's critical backbone.'' Along with its complete server and storage hardware systems, Sun is providing around-the-clock, mission-critical services. The Sun team in Salt Lake City is part of the same award-winning organization that helps maintain operations of 1.8 million systems for customers in 125 countries around the world. Sun has extensive experience in supporting large event systems which include World Cup Soccer, Major League Baseball (MLB.com), Formula One Racing, America's Cup, John Elway Celebrity Golf Classic and The International PGA TOUR event. For more information visit www.sun.com