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SANTA CLARA, CA -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), referring to itself as “number one in the UNIX® server market” signed several deals today beating out rival UNIX vendors in each instance for the business. Representing several key industries and geographies, Lexmark, Hindustan Times Ltd., Procesar and Electrificadora Del Sur chose Sun's leading server, storage and workstation technology and services to run their IT infrastructures. Companies continue to choose Sun products over competitors, including IBM for their robust performance and low cost of ownership. Sun's UltraSPARC(TM) product line addresses the complex and diverse needs of customers worldwide. ``Sun's superior technology and excellent price/performance, combined with our focus on product reliability and customer support, make Sun a natural choice for customers and their IT infrastructure,'' said Shahin Khan, vice president and chief competitive officer, Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ``It's no surprise that customers continue to choose Sun over competitors like IBM.'' Sun Workstations Offer Low Cost of Ownership for Printer Leader Sun's commitment to high performance and low prices through its powerful 64-bit Sun Blade(TM) workstations offers corporations a compelling choice for their technical computing needs. Citing Sun's quality, performance and low cost of ownership, printer giant Lexmark chose Sun's Sun Blade(TM) 1000s, over products from other UNIX vendors, to help power the company's CAD/CAM design applications. Lexmark will benefit from the reliability and scalability offered by Sun's entire workstation family. Sun Fire(TM) Midframe Servers Support the Needs of Media Giant India's foremost media company, Hindustan Times Ltd., needed the reliability and scalability offered by Sun's Sun Fire Midframe server family to run its enterprise resource planning suite, publishing applications and media portal, HindustanTimes.com. The company chose Sun's UltraSPARC III-powered Sun Fire 3800 and 4800 servers, based on Sun's UltraSPARC III technology, over competing IBM products, relying on the powerful servers to bring its flagship English daily newspaper, Hindustan Times, to print every morning. Hindustan Times is also designing their IT infrastructure based on Sun(TM) Open Network Environment (Sun ONE), the vision, architecture, platform and expertise for developing and deploying services on demand. Sun's High-End Servers Power Mexico's Pension Fund Administration Leading financial IT services corporations such as Mexico's Procesar continue to look to Sun for their high performance computing needs. Balancing the need for power and performance with a low cost of ownership, Procesar replaced its existing IBM mainframe with a Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 high-end server to run Mexico's pension program. With its new Sun systems, Procesar is able to process 15 million transactions a month, usually in the span of just two days, and anticipates initial savings of more than 40 percent. Sun Provides Storage Solutions for El Salvador's Largest Utility Providing utility services to a majority of El Salvador's population, Electrificadora Del Sur (DelSur), required superior technology at a low cost to fulfill its storage needs. Choosing Sun StorEdge(TM) 9960 system over competing IBM products, DelSur recognized reduced costs with increased scalability, reliability and performance. For additional information visit www.sun.com