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SANTA CLARA, CA -- To commemorate the retirement of the world's best selling UNIX® workstation ever, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced the Sun Ultra Upgrade Program, offering special discounts to Sun Ultra(tm) workstation owners who upgrade to Sun's faster, more powerful line of Sun Blade workstations. Sun also announced a companion campaign dubbed ``Find the Fives,'' a special promotion that sets out to locate five Sun Ultra 5 workstations in the first group of workstations sold. Lucky customers, with the serial numbers listed below will be rewarded with a free, fully-loaded Sun(TM) Blade 100 workstation package. ``The Sun Ultra 5 workstation has been the best selling UNIX workstation ever because customers prize the high standards we set for price/performance,'' said Fred Kohout, director of marketing of Client and Technical Market Products at Sun Microsystems. ``With our new Sun Blade workstations, we've further raised the performance bar while dramatically lowering the price bar, providing the robust, highly scalable 64-bit Sun platform at PC price points. We've brought to market the desktop solutions that our customers need, which is why Sun Microsystems holds more of the 64-bit workstation market than all of our competitors combined.'' Sun Blade Workstations at Reduced Prices The Sun Ultra Upgrade Program provides extra discounts to those who trade in their older Sun Ultra 5, 10, 60 or 80 workstations for one of Sun's newer, more powerful Sun Blade 100 and Sun Blade 1000 workstations. Introduced in September 2000, the Sun Blade 1000 workstation offers a powerful, high-end 3D graphics workstation -- featuring twice the performance, memory and disk capacity of existing UltraSPARC II systems -- at affordable price points. And earlier this year, Sun unveiled the Sun Blade 100 workstation, its new entry-level system that remains the only 64-bit, 3D graphics workstation priced under $1,000 without a monitor. With significantly better performance -- at about half the cost -- the Sun Blade 100 workstation has provided customers with the ideal follow-on to Sun's Ultra 5 2D graphics workstation. For additional information on Sun's Ultra Upgrade Program go to www.sun.com/desktop