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SANTA CLARA, CA -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced new application-ready Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Certified Configurations for Sun. This integrated solution offered by Oracle and Sun enables customers to quickly and easily deploy highly available Oracle9i Real Application Clusters for mutual customers. Delivered via Sun's Clustered Database Platform 280/3, the new "out-of-the-box" configurations have been factory-integrated and interoperability-tested to reduce complexity and dramatically speed deployment. In addition, the solution provides customers with greater choice to meet their specific business needs and improve their return on investment. Reducing Total Cost of Ownership by Making it Easier and Faster to Deploy Highly Available Oracle9i Real Application Clusters The Oracle9i Real Application Clusters for Sun solution includes options to support the independent servers that cooperate as a single system, which has been thoroughly tested for optimal performance and interoperability. The solution is backed by 24-x-7 support provided via Joint Escalation Centers worldwide. For ease of installation, customized JumpStart scripts have been written which, allow system administrators to perform a complete start-to-finish configuration of cluster nodes in a few simple steps. "Today, our customers are concerned with lowering their total cost of ownership. By working with Sun to deliver application-ready solutions, such as Sun's Clustered Database Platform 280/3 including Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, we're helping customers better meet their business challenges," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Platform Partnerships at Oracle. "We're cutting costs and time associated with installation, integration, on-going administration, and migration. Together, Sun and Oracle deliver deployment ease, reliability and availability for our customers' database infrastructures." A Complete, Application-Ready Solution for Highly Available and Reliable Oracle9iReal Application Clusters Deployments Sun's Clustered Database Platform 280/3 includes redundant Sun Fire(TM) 280R servers with two 900MHz UltraSPARC III processors on each server, mirrored Sun StorEdge(TM) T3 arrays, and Sun Netra(TM) T1 AC200 management server integrated with the Solaris(TM) 8 Operating Environment, Sun Cluster 3.0, Oracle9i Enterprise Edition with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, Sun Cluster 3.0 HA agent for Oracle and file management software. With a safe and reliable platform based on engineering best practices that has been thoroughly tested prior to shipment, the Clustered Database Platform 280/3 helps minimize downtime by significantly reducing on-site integration. "We have a very strong relationship with Oracle, which gives our customers even greater confidence in this tightly integrated and tuned solution," said Gary Beck, vice president, integrated products of Sun Microsystems. "Our Oracle9i Real Application Clusters offering supports Sun's mission to provide reliable, cost-effective Cluster Platforms that make it easy to deploy solutions quickly. We call this a business-ready infrastructure because it increases operational efficiencies, helps minimize complexity and speeds time to revenue, which allows our customers to simultaneously and successfully meet both their IT needs and their business requirements."