Sun microsystems Q2 2009 earnings releases

1. SUN MICROSYSTEMS
Q209 QUARTERLY
RESULTS RELEASE
Investor Relations
http://www.sun.com/investors
Slide
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2. Speakers
• Ron Pasek – VP, Corporate Treasurer
• Jonathan Schwartz – CEO & President
• Mike Lehman – CFO & Executive VP,
Corporate Resources
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3. Top Level P&L
Q208 Q109 Q209 Q-Q Q-Q Y-Y Y-Y
Actuals Actuals Actuals Change %Change Change %Change
Revenue 3,615 2,990 3,220 230 8% (395) (11%)
Gross Margin 1,753 1,201 1,350 149 12% (403) (23%)
Gross Margin % 48.5% 40.2% 41.9% 1.7 Pts (6.6) Pts
Operating Expenses * 1,491 2,851 1,549 (1,302) (46%) 58 (4%)
Operating Income 262 (1,650) (199) 1,451 88% (461) (176%)
Net Income 260 (1,677) (209) 1,468 88% (469) (180%)
Operating Margin % 7.2% (55.2%) (6.2%) 49.0 Pts (13.4) Pts
EPS GAAP $0.31 ($2.24) ($0.28) $1.96 88% ($0.59) (190%)
Non-GAAP Net Income ** 409 (65) 114 179 275% (295) (72%)
EPS Non-GAAP ** $0.50 ($0.09) $0.15 $0.24 267% ($0.35) (70%)
* Total Operating Expenses includes SG&A, R&D, Purchase IPRD, Restructuring, & Intangible Impairment charges.
** See Slide 15 for a reconciliation of GAAP Net Income and EPS GAAP to Non-GAAP Net Income and EPS Non-GAAP, respectively.
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4. Revenue Products Revenue down (14)% Y/Y
Services Revenue down (6)% Y/Y
PRODUCTS/S ERVICES
Ye a r /Ye a r C h a n g e
0% (1)%
$4,000 1%
7%
3% (1)% (11)%
1%
(7)%
35% 37%
38%
$3,000 37%
Revenue (millions)
39% 40%
37% 38%
41%
$2,000
63% 63% 65% 62% 62% 61% 63% 59% 60%
$1,000
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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Products Revenue (% of Total) Services Revenue (% of Total)
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5. Revenue
PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Ye a r/ Ye a r Ch a n ge
50%
40%
Products Revenue
Services Revenue
Revenue Y/Y Change %
31%
30%
25%
23%
21% 20%
20%
15% 15%
10%
7% 7% 7% 7%
6% 6% 6%
4% 5% 5% 5% 4%
3% 3% 3% 3%
2%
1% 1%
0% 0% -1%
-1% -1%
0% -2%
-3% -3% -4%
-5% -6%
-7%
-10% -11%
-10%
-13% -14%
-20%
Q104 Q204 Q304 Q404 Q105 Q205 Q305 Q405 Q106 Q206 Q306 Q406 Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
Fiscal Quarter
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6. Billings Disclosure by Category*
($Millions) Q207 Q307 Q407 FY07 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 FY08 Q109 Q209
Systems Billings
Solaris SPARC Enterprise Servers 908 762 1,076 3,388 793 978 702 939 3,413 576 662
Change % Y/Y 16 -9 1 2 23 8 -8 -13 1 -27 -32
Solaris SPARC CMT Servers 138 142 220 608 185 282 299 353 1,119 338 369
Change % Y/Y 743 218 84 237 70 105 110 61 84 83 31
X64 Servers 176 162 192 684 169 157 186 195 707 176 175
Change % Y/Y 47 36 28 44 10 -11 14 1 3 4 11
Other Systems Products 466 388 462 1,737 356 367 282 286 1,292 156 130
Change % Y/Y -14 -21 -23 -19 -15 -21 -27 -38 -26 -56 -65
Subtotal*** 1,687 1,455 1,950 6,418 1,503 1,785 1,469 1,774 6,530 1,246 1,336
Change % Y/Y 15 -3 1 5 13 6 1 -9 2 -17 -25
Software Billings
Java 41 60 94 219 29 45 57 88 220 34 67
Change % Y/Y 3 5 17 13 21 10 -4 -6 1 18 47
MySQL / Infrastructure 45 50 74 198 25 52 40 91 208 52 81
Change % Y/Y 9 79 35 43 -17 16 -20 24 5 111 55
Solaris, Management and Virtualization 65 52 55 221 44 59 49 64 216 38 42
Change % Y/Y -1 3 2 12 -12 -10 -4 16 -2 -14 -29
Subtotal*** 151 162 223 639 97 156 147 244 644 124 189
Change % Y/Y 3 20 18 20 -6 3 -9 9 1 27 21
Computer Systems Reserves and Adjustments -204 -117 -320 -602 -126 -347 -142 -295 -910 -114 -156
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Total Computer Systems Revenue*** 1,634 1,500 1,853 6,455 1,475 1,594 1,473 1,722 6,264 1,257 1,369
Storage Billings
Disks & Storage Arrays 386 345 387 1,412 302 407 350 468 1,528 311 386
Change % Y/Y 7 -2 -7 1 3 6 1 21 8 3 -5
Open Storage 17 9 24 50 9 26 23 33 91 25 31
Change % Y/Y 55 155 37 83 162 21
Tape 277 242 266 990 196 282 195 279 953 188 245
Change % Y/Y -25 14 -8 -8 -4 2 -19 5 -4 -4 -13
Other Storage 12 -4 22 37 14 17 16 12 58 11 8
Change % Y/Y 20 -128 153 -12 69 41 458 -44 55 -16 -54
Storage Reserves and Adjustments -65 -32 -60 -172 -17 -77 -54 -128 -276 -28 -100
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Total Storage Revenue*** 626 560 639 2,316 505 655 530 664 2,354 507 570
Total Products Revenue 2,260 2,060 2,492 8,771 1,980 2,249 2,003 2,386 8,618 1,764 1,939
Services Revenue
Hardware, Software Support (Including Solaris & Other Software) 1,001 950 1,024 3,962 979 1,041 961 1,042 4,023 963 946
Change % Y/Y 5 5 4 8 -1 4 1 2 2 -2 -9
Professional and Education Services 305 273 319 1,140 260 325 302 352 1,239 263 335
Change % Y/Y 11 15 0 12 7 7 11 10 9 1 3
Total Services Revenue 1,306 1,223 1,343 5,102 1,239 1,366 1,263 1,394 5,262 1,226 1,281
Total Sun Revenue 3,566 3,283 3,835 13,873 3,219 3,615 3,266 3,780 13,880 2,990 3,220
Notes:
20 26 43 96 55 44 69 73 241 61 71
Blade Servers Billings (includes CMT, X64, and Netra)
0 0 0 0 638 122 162 71 151 11 62
Change % Y/Y
● Solaris SPARC Enterprise Servers includes the Datacenter & Midrange server systems ● Solaris SPARC CMT Servers includes all CMT Servers, including CMT Blades and CMT Netra products
● X64 Servers includes X64 Rack, X64 Blades and X64 Netra products and excludes products categorized under Open Storage ● Other Systems Products includes Workstations, Volume SPARC, Netra SPARC, Integrated Products and Networking products
● Open Storage includes the Sun Storage 7110,7210, and 7410, Sun Fire X4500, Sun Fire X4540, J4200, J4400 and J4500 products ● Other Storage includes the NAS products minus Sun Storage 7110,7210, and 7410
*Billings represent the amount invoiced to customers for products and are subject to cancellation. Billings is not a GAAP financial measurement, and therefore is not an audited number. Billings differs from revenue in that billings are not adjusted for
any reserves and are not subject to any of the conditions under GAAP that must be met before revenue is recognized. Accordingly, amounts billed may not lead to revenue and billings should not be viewed as equivalent to, or a substitute for, GAAP
revenue.
Reserves and adjustments represent deferrals, reserves and other reductions of invoiced amounts required under GAAP before revenue is recognized.
**
*** Excludes service revenue attributable to Systems, Software, and Storage including maintenance and support shown in the Hardware, Software Support line under Services Revenue
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7. Billings Trends*
Growth Categories
Traditional Categories
2,500 1,125
1,000
2,000
875
Open Storage
Billings (millions)
Other Storage
Billings (millions)
Solaris, Man-
Tape 750 agement and Vir-
Disks & Storage
1,500 tualization
Arrays 625 MySQL / Infrastruc-
Other Systems ture
Products Java
500
1,000 Solaris SPARC X64 Servers
Enterprise Solaris SPARC
375
Servers CMT Servers
250
500
125
0 0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
Fiscal Quarter Fiscal Quarter
* Billings represent the amount invoiced to customers for products and are subject to cancellation. Billings is not a GAAP financial measurement, and therefore is not an audited number. Billings differs from revenue in that billings are
not adjusted for any reserves and are not subject to any of the conditions under GAAP that must be met before revenue is recognized. Accordingly, amounts billed may not lead to revenue and billings should not be viewed as equivalent
to, or a substitute for, GAAP revenue.
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8. Services Revenue Support Services down (9)% Y/Y
Professional Services/Edu Services up 3% Y/Y
TOTAL SERVICES REVENUE
Ye a r/ Ye a r C h a n g e
$1,500
4%
5%
3%
6% (6)%
3%
1%
7% (1)%
25%
24%
23% 24% 26%
Revenue (millions)
21% 24%
22% 21%
$1,000
$500
79% 76% 76% 75% 79%
77% 78% 76% 74%
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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Professional Services/Edu Services
Support Services Revenue (% of Total
Revenue (% of Total Services)
Services)
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9. Products Margin down (9.3) pts Y/Y
Gross Margin Services Margin down (2.6) pts Y/Y
Total Margin down (6.6) pts Y/Y
PRODUCTS/SERVICES 48.5% 48.5%
47.2%
44.9%
45.0% 44.3%
44.5%
41.9%
$2,000 1,812 40.2%
1,753
1,673
1,604 1,561
Gross Margin (millions)
1,468
1,461 47.1%
1,350
48.7%
$1,500 47.3%
43.8% 1,201
49.2%
44.9% 45.2%
46.1%
47.3%
$1,000
$500 45.7% 44.3% 47.4% 48.0% 48.4% 44.8% 42.5% 35.2% 39.1%
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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Gross Margin % Gross Margin %-Products Gross Margin %-Services
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10. Gross Margin %
PRODUCTS/SERVICES
50.0%
49.2%
49.0% 48.7%
48.5% 48.5%
48.4%
48.0%
48.0%
47.4% 47.3% 47.3%
47.2%
47.1%
47.0%
46.1%
46.0% 45.7%
45.2%
45.0% 44.9% 44.9%
44.8%
Gross Margin %
45.0% 44.5%
44.3% 44.3%
44.0% 43.8%
43.0%
42.5%
41.9%
42.0%
41.0%
40.2%
40.0%
39.1%
39.0%
Products Gross Margin
38.0% Services Gross Margin
Total Gross Margin
37.0%
36.0%
35.2%
35.0%
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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11. R&D / SG&A Expense* (9)% Y/Y decrease
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
$1,800
(7)% (5)% (12)% 2%
(2)% (2)%
(3)%
$1,500 (3)% (9)%
$1,200
(millions)
$978 $957 $958 $989 $1,032
$995
$939
$900 $920 $916
$600
$300 $514 $514
$507 $463 $468
$457
$446 $423 $411
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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SG&A
R&D
* Total Operating Expenses differ from SG&A and R&D Expenses because Total Operating Expenses includes IPRD, Restructuring, &
Intangible Impairment charges.
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12. Demand Metrics
Deferred Revenue at $2.6B
Book to Bill Ratio & Backlog
Ye a r / Ye a r G r o w t h
8%
3,000 24% 9%
9% 6% (4)%
14%
15%
Balance (millions)
2,500 9%
Q208 Q109 Q209
2,000
Book to Bill Ratio* 1.07 1.00 1.01
1,500
1,000
Product & Services
500
Backlog ($M) ** $2,007 $1,922 $1,785
0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
Fiscal Quarter
* Book to Bill Ratio assumes Services ratio 1:1.
** Services Backlog based on three month backlog horizon
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13. Deferred Revenue Products Deferred Revenue up 13% Y/Y
Services Deferred Revenue down (11)% Y/Y
PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Ye a r / Ye a r C ha n g e
8% 9%
9% 24%
$2,800 6% (4)%
14%
15%
9%
Revenue (millions)
$2,100
78%
78%
77% 71% 65%
75% 71% 69% 69%
$1,400
$700
25% 23% 22% 29% 29% 31% 31% 35%
22%
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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Services Deferred Revenue
Products Deferred Revenue
(% of Total)
(% of Total)
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14. North America down (11)% Y/Y
Revenue - Geo Europe down (13)% Y/Y
Emerging Markets down (1)% Y/Y
North America/ Europe/
APAC down (20)% Y/Y
Emergin g Markets/ APAC*
3,835 3,780
$4,000 3,615
3,566
Revenue – Geo (millions)
3,283 3,266 3,220
12% 12%
3,219
12% 2,990
12%
14%
$3,000 13% 13% 11%
12%
13%
15%
13% 12%
13%
13% 14% 17%
15%
31%
$2,000 33% 33%
34%
32%
33% 32%
34% 33%
$1,000
42% 41% 44% 39% 39% 41% 41% 39%
43%
$0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
Fiscal Quarter
Revenue-Emerging Revenue-APAC
Revenue-North Revenue-Europe
Markets (% of Total) (% of Total)
America (% of Total) (% of Total)
* Effective Q1FY09, we began utilizing revised geographic groupings. Percentage of total revenue figures have been adjusted to reflect the change in the compilation of the countries that make up each of our
geographic regions.
Geographic revenue reported for Q1FY07 and Q2FY07 has been adjusted to reflect a correction in intercompany revenue to properly report country of origin.
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15. Non-GAAP Calculation of Net Income
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals
GAAP net income (loss) 133 67 329 89 260 (34) 88 (1,677) (209)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Purchased IPRD 0 0 0 0 1 24 6 0 0
Amortization of acquisition related
intangibles 80 78 74 74 74 76 86 80 72
Stock based compensation 58 50 48 48 52 57 57 49 52
Restructuring and related impairment of
long-lived assets 26 35 15 113 32 14 104 63 222
Impairment of goodwill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,445 0
(Gain) loss on equity investments, net 0 (5) (1) (22) 0 0 (10) (8) 3
Settlement income 0 (54) 0 0 0 0 (45) 0 0
Tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments (7) (10) (7) (17) (10) (5) (11) (17) (26)
Non-GAAP net income (loss) 290 161 458 285 409 132 275 (65) 114
Diluted Non-GAAP net income (loss)
$0.32 $0.18 $0.50 $0.32 $0.50 $0.17 $0.35 ($0.09) $0.15
per share
Change vs. prior year (%) 500.0% 357.1% 455.6% 190.9% 56.3% (5.6%) (30.0%) (128.1%) (70.0%)
Change vs. prior quarter (%) 190.9% (43.8%) 177.8% (36.0%) 56.3% (66.0%) 105.9% (125.7%) 266.7%
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16. Server Metrics
Total Server Units
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
120
(11)% 2%
1%
Total Server Units
4% (5)%
100 6% 2%
(5)% (9)%
(thousands)
80
60
40
20
0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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x64* Server Units
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
28% 39% 15%
26%
35
0% 13%
x64* Server Units
22% 10%
30
7%
(thousands)
25
20
15
10
5
0
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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* x64 servers include x86 32-bit and x64 64-bit servers and blades
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17. Major News from Sun's Q2 FY09
• Focused on Long-term Growth & Profitability
> According to IDC's 3Q08 (Sun's Q1FY09) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems tracker,
Sun demonstrated its fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth for total disk
storage system sales, with a 25% year-over-year increase in factory revenue. Sun was at the
top of the list for year-over-year growth for external disk systems and outperformed the overall
market.
In conjunction with IBM, announced the launch of the Open Document Format Toolkit Union,
>
an open-source software community project organized to make document software more
innovative, versatile and useful for business.
According to the latest Top 500 Supercomputers list, LustreTM file system is managing data on
>
more than 50% of the Top 50 supercomputers and seven of the top 10 supercomputers.
Additionally, nine of the top 10 supercomputers are using Sun Storage technologies.
With Europractice, a European Union-backed non-profit microelectronics design stimulation
>
project, Sun announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARCTM Chip Multi-
Threading (CMT) technology as a reference design among 650 universities and research
institutions across 38 countries in the European region.
Announced plans to align business and cost model with global economic climate through
>
reduction in force and internal reorganization to accelerate the introduction of open source
innovations to the marketplace.
Announced an agreement with Southeastern Asset Management, Sun's largest shareholder, to
>
add two new independent members to Sun's Board of Directors.
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18. Major News from Sun's Q2 FY09
• Delivered Ground-Breaking Innovations to the Market
Introduced Sun and Fujitsu's SPARC® Enterprise® T5440 server, a midrange system with industry-
>
leading price points, power management and world record benchmarks.
Unveiled its Unified Storage System – the Sun Storage 7000 family (“Amber Road”) -- based on industry
>
standard components and Sun’s robust software stack. The system offers optimized performance,
breakthrough diagnostics, and increased troubleshooting all while using one-fourth the energy
consumption of competing storage systems, resulting in reduced implementation times and up to 75%
cost savings.
Introduced JavaFXTM 1.0, a new platform that merges form and functionality for building Rich Internet
>
Applications with immersive media and content for Web browsers and desktops.
Announced a new storage blade designed to deliver datacenter efficiency, expanding Sun’s systems
>
portfolio targeted at improving efficiency across the enterprise.
Introduced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBoxTM, Sun's high performance, free and open source
>
desktop virtualization software.
Introduced the updated JavaTM Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10, significantly improving the
>
usability and performance of the Java platform on desktop computers worldwide.
Introduced the Identity Compliance Manager, a simple and cost-effective solution to help customers
>
better manage business and compliance risks.
Announced global efforts in solving accessibility challenges for all devices from cell phones to desktops
>
and Web applications by leading a consortium of more than 20 other companies and organizations.
Funded by a grant awarded by the European Commission, the AEGIS Project is based on the Sun-led
proposal and technical architecture.
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19. Key Metrics: Volume Drives Opportunity
Java Enterprise System Subscribers* Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc., December 2008
More than 2.2 million in Q2FY09 with 20% year-over-year growth *Quarterly totals include Java ES (Suites) and core JES
Cumulative Subscribers
2,100
1,750
(thousands)
1,400
1,050
700
350
0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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Java Runtime Environment Installations* *Windows Systems Only, Starting November 2006
Source: Omniture Site Catalyst, December 2008
More than 180 million installations in Q2 FY09
1,120
960
Cumulative Installations
800
(millions)
640
480
320
160
00
Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109 Q209
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20. Q2 FY09 Sample Customer Momentum
National Center for Atmospheric Research of AMSTAR implemented a new digital storage library that will preserve and
•
TM
protect valuable scientific data for the next 15-20 years. Based on the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library, the new
system will give NCAR 5x its current storage capacity, enabling increasingly sophisticated computer studies of the Earth's
climate.
Rabobank Group, based in Utrecht, Netherlands, wanted to reduce cost and complexity in its multivendor infrastructure. To
•
create a single point of contact and increase oversight of its infrastructure, the bank turned to Sun for a three-year Multivendor
Support contract to oversee its existing Sun, HP and IBM systems. As a result of the simplified administration, Rabobank
expects to reduce costs by at least 10%, streamline management and improve oversight of its IT environment.
Wotif.com, a leading hotel reservation Web site in Australia and New Zealand, turned to Sun for a 3-year, unlimited-use
•
TM
subscription for MySQL Enterprise and Sun Java Application Platform Suite. The company required a predictable cost model
to allow for future growth of its IT infrastructure including its Web operations and needed to ensure the right level of IT support.
Movistar, a leading mobile telephone services provider in Argentina, turned to Sun for a solution based on the Solaris 10 OS as
•
TM
well as Sun SPARC Enterprise, Sun Fire and StorageTek technologies. With this new solution in place, Movistar expects to
reduce operating expenses and will meet its goal of reducing its datacenter footprint and power consumption.
iWeb, an internet hosting infrastructure company, looked to Sun's Open Storage technologies to help fulfill its needs for large
•
volume storage. Chosen for their performance, reliability, ease of use and modularity the new Sun solution includes the Sun
Storage 7410 System and Sun Storage J4400 array.
Among Russia's largest chemical companies, Uralkali is one of the world's leading producers of mineral fertilizers. With a high
•
level of business processes automation and a highly developed ERP system covering all fields of the company's activity, Uralkali
wanted to minimize their risks and turned to Sun for Support Services that will enable them to run critical applications
uninterrupted and minimize technology downtime.
The University of Tokyo’s Human Genome Center (HGC), part of The Institute of Medical Science, which conducts critical
•
genetic diagnostic research for intractable diseases, decided to replace its existing IT systems with a high-performance
computing cluster to boost its research capabilities. Sun, along with a partner, will provide HGC with a solution consisting of Sun
TM
Blade server modules, Sun storage technologies, the Lustre file system, and Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition.
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21. Continued Strength in Product Reviews
Sun's activity with virtualization
●
continues to shine in
NetworkWorld, Linux.com and Review: OpenOffice.org 3, By John Brandon
About.com's Guide to Macs Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with
OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite–including
Sun Ray 2 Devices tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and
eWeek Labs examined
●
By Rick Vanover
more—with one major additional feature: it’s free.
VirtualBox 2.1, calling it a OpenOffice 3 is a major upgrade over the previous version,
The Sun Ray 2 series of devices includes refined products that
“commercial-grade, no-cost, with plenty of new features, native OS support, and all the
operate nicely in today's VDI landscape regarding network
tools most people would need to get their work done.
open-source desktop transport, multimedia, I/O redirection and a price point that may
surprise you. The Sun Ray 2 devices deliver a great user
virtualization software that experience and have several options for back-end
rivals VMWare Workstation” configuration to meet most requirements.
InfoWorld’s review of Amber
●
Road said that ZFSTM on the Hands-on: OpenSolaris 2008.11 a Major Step
system is “only getting better VirtualBox 2.1.0 Released: A Look at the Mac Forward for Sun, By Ryan Paul
Version
and better” OpenSolaris is making progress and is steadily becoming a
By Todd Ogasawara
more viable contender on the desktop. Major new features
The StarOfficeTM 9 launch
●
like the ZFS snapshot visualization that expose some of the
VirtualBox has come a long way since the first Mac supported
resulted in much fanfare across version (1.4.0) was released on June 6, 2007. It is really starting platform's rich underlying functionality are a good sign that
to look like a solid offering in the Mac virtualization hypervisor the developers are moving in the right direction.
IT news and blogs, ranging area. I haven't updated my Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion
to the latest versions yet. And, after a quick look at VirtualBox
from Government Computer 2.1.0, I wonder if I will need to.
News to CRN, as
Sun's T5440 Server Is Built To Multitask
OpenOffice.orgTM 3 reviews By Jeff Ballard
continued to appear in Review: StarOffice 9 Merits Serious Consideration Sun's latest multicore server, the Sparc Enterprise T5440,
runs rings around more expensive devices when
Macworld, InformationWeek By Samara Lynn
performing a lot of tasks concurrently. It's ideal for
and others databases and virtualization and excels at encrypting and
With added functionality from OpenOffice.org and a price that
is a sliver of what Microsoft charges for Office, could StarOffice decrypting data thanks to on-board security co-processors.
Computerworld reviewed the win over the hearts of VARs and IT decision makers?
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Sun FireTM X4150, saying “there
is a wealth of potential uses” for
the server Flexibility in the Datacenter with the X4150
Sun Trumpets Radically Simple Open Storage
By Martin MC Brown
A TechTarget reviewer said he Boxes, By Chris Mellor
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That's what X4150 gives you, flexibility. With 8 cores, 64GB
“firmly believes” OpenSolarisTM RAM, 8 drives, and 4 GbE ports you can choose a variety of Sun's radically new 7000 line of storage appliances
configurations to suit your needs, and if you decide to change combines embedded servers, drive arrays and a
will become a serious player in your mind, you can do so without changing your hardware, just comprehensive open storage software stack in a low-priced
redeploy it.
the SMB storage space bundle.

22. Industry Analyst Recognition
• quot;The Sun Storage 7000 family may well be in a class by itself. The embedded hardware functionality and list of
software add-ons are remarkable for the price of this appliance. This new family has the potential to become the
most disruptive thing Sun has ever done in storage.quot;-- lluminata, December 5, 2008, John Webster, Illuminata,
Computerworld, Subatra Suppiah
• “As a technology, the work Sun has put into JavaFX seems impressive and much welcomed.”-- RedMonk,
December 4, 2008, JavaFX 1.0 Arrives – What Now?
• “Innovation doesn’t happen elsewhere. It happens at Sun. The portfolio is in better shape than ever. The retooling of
a tired mess into a clean and solid portfolio is complete...the portfolio overhaul has been a success.”-- RedMonk,
November 26, 2008, What Should Sun do?
• “The open source market matured. Sun Microsystems was by far the most active vendor in this space. Its
continuous investment in the GlassFish app server, the JavaFX user interface, and the OpenSolaris operating
system showed ongoing investment in innovation.”-- Forrester, November 20, 2008, Health Check For The Software
Industry: Software Market Momentum, H1 2008
• “While each vendor has its own combination of technologies in these early days of cloud computing, Sun certainly
has its own building blocks for the cloud: OpenSolaris, Solaris containers and Sun XVM, a policy-based manager of
virtualized software stacks that can host Solaris, Windows and Linux as guest operating systems.”-- IDC, November
14, 2008, Sun Reorganizes, and Looks to Leverage Its Open-Source Software Portfolio, Doc # lcUS21527608
• “Sun has now bought into virtualization in a systematic way. It’s got a standalone Xen-based hypervisor; operating
system containers; management, provisioning, and update tools; a thin client portfolio; and even a PC virtualization
product oriented towards developers.” -- Illuminata, October 13, 2008, Virtualization Strategies: Sun Microsystems
• “SSO Enterprise is an important step in Sun’s attempt to build a viable business on top of its open sourced identity
management source code.” -- Current Analysis, October 1, 2008, Sun Introduces Commercial Version of OpenSSO

23. New Record-breaking Results for Q2FY09
375+ World Records and Counting
Model Benchmark
Sun SPARC Record breaking performance with Solaris 10 OS on LHS
Telco
Enterprise M9000 BSCS iX Release 2 Telecommunications billing benchmark
Sun SPARC Best 4-processor result on SAP SD 2-tier benchmark
ERP
Enterprise T5440 with Solaris 10 OS and Oracle Database Server 10g
Sun Blade T6340 Highest dual-processor floating point, integer and OpenMP
HPC
compute intensive results with Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 12
Sun Fire X4150 Best price/performance with Sun's Open Source software:
Appl. tier
OpenSolaris 2008.05 OS and GlassFish application server
Sun Fire X4240 The best dual-processor web server in the industry on
Web
SPECweb2005 benchmark with Linux OS
Sun Fire X4600 The fastest x86 Java server in the industry with Solaris 10
Java
and latest Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) software
Results were posted during Q2FY09 (Oct.-Dec. 2008). See Benchmark Disclosure slide for additional information.

24. Benchmark Disclosures
SPEC and the benchmark names SPECweb, SPEComp, SPECfp, SPECint, SPECjAppServer and SPECjbb are registered
trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive data for each claim is obtained from
http://www.spec.org as of the date indicated next to the claim. See respective websites for the latest results. For comparison
purposes, the terms CPU, chip and processor are used interchangeably. Each socket can accommodate one chip. SAP, R/3,
mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. For the latest results and additional information visit
www.sap.com/benchmark.
As of 10/13/2008:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise T5440 – 1.4 GHz
UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 4 processors / 32 cores / 256 threads,128 GB RAM, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, SAP ERP 6.0. Results: 7,520
SAP SD Benchmark users, 37,650 SAPS, certification number 2008058
As of 10/21/2008:
Sun Blade T6340 (2 chips, 16 cores, 128 threads): SPECompM2001 - 25,952.
Sun Blade T6340 (2 chips, 16 cores, 128 threads): SPECint_rate2006 - 160, SPECfp_rate2006 – 121
As of 11/05/2008:
2xSun Fire X4150 (8 cores, 2chips) and 1xSun Fire X4150 (4 cores, 1 chip) 1197.10 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Details of pricing information and competitive comparisons can be found here:
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4150/benchmarks.jsp?display=3#3
As of 12/09/2008:
Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, 1037851 SPECjbb2005 bops, 129731 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
Sun Fire X4240 server - 37,630 SPECweb2005.

25. SUN MICROSYSTEMS
Q209 QUARTERLY
RESULTS RELEASE
Investor Relations
http://www.sun.com/investors
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