Dubai, June 3, 2004 – Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT company, welcomes the announcement by parent company, Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702), and Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) on the expansion of their 20-year strategic relationship to include the joint development and delivery of future generation Solaris and SPARC-based systems. The announcement brings together the technology of two of the strongest companies in the world to deliver best in class platforms for all possible network computing workloads for Solaris and SPARC.

Fujitsu and Sun will bring together their Solaris and SPARC-based server product lines by mid-2006, creating the industry’s most complete data centre systems family, code named the Advanced Product Line (APL). APL will run the world’s leading enterprise-class operating system, Solaris, the Java Enterprise System, and virtually every major enterprise application. When complete, the APL will replace Fujitsu’s and Sun’s existing PRIMEPOWER and Sun Fire product lines, respectively. Customers will benefit from safe and seamless binary compatibility along the SPARC roadmap.

To complement this announcement, Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced that it will work together with Sun Microsystems in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and build on both companies’ strengths and technical expertise to market, deliver and support SPARC and Solaris-based solutions.

A key collaboration area will be the establishment of aligned industry solution centers in EMEA, which will focus on implementations of the whole solution stack from hardware through middleware offerings up to integration of the applications that customers need to implement their Business Critical Computing environments.

“The APL will benefit from the technical superiority of the relationship, is a direct continuation of our current, highly successful PRIMEPOWER product line, and will represent a major element of our Business Critical Computing strategy,” said Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “This collaboration will continue to set us ahead of the competition in terms of speed and agility in responding to customer needs. We look forward to working together more closely with Sun Microsystems in the future.”

“The strong acceptance of the best-in-class architectures based on SPARC and Solaris platforms will be reinforced with our collaboration with Fujitsu Siemens Computers” said Frederick Kohout, VP of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Sun Microsystems. “Working together will allow us to deliver unmatched depth of experience in data center infrastructure with the broadest product line in the industry.”

PRIMEPOWER systems from Fujitsu Siemens Computers are highly scalable Unix servers. Ranging from small and medium workgroup servers and compute nodes to enterprise models for business critical applications, the PRIMEPOWER series of UNIX servers provides customers with mainframe-class reliability, and also super-computer-like performance. By applying latest virtualization, automation and integration technologies, Fujitsu Siemens Computers provides products and solutions that increase business efficiency, agility and continuity with the SPARC64™/ Solaris-based PRIMEPOWER servers.
 
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