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DATELINE: SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 3

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), today announced broad industry support for the Sun(TM) ONE Portal Server 6 offering with partners who enhance, extend and deliver specialized technology expertise for portal computing. The companies supporting Sun ONE Portal Server include leaders in areas such as content syndication, content management, personalization, authentication, collaboration, enterprise application access and wireless infrastructure. 28 iForce partners have announced their endorsement of the new Sun ONE Portal Server 6 today, including Actuate, Bowstreet, Broad Daylight, Citrix, D2K, Divine, Documentum, FatWire, Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, HNC Software(Blaze Advisor from HNC), Interwoven, Kivera, LogicLibrary, NewsEdge, Open Text, PiroNet NDH, Prophecy International, RSA Security, Screaming Media, Tarantella, T4 Consulting Group (T4CG), TogetherSoft, Vignette, Vuico (NTT SOFT), Wokup!, Xacct Technologies, Yahoo! and YellowBrix.

"Sun ONE Portal Server has proven itself to be a highly extensible foundation for scalable, effective portal computing initiatives worldwide," said Laura Clayton, Senior Director of Sun ONE Market Development for Sun Microsystems. "The strength of the Portal Server ISV community exponentially expands a portal's possibilities by letting enterprise customers aggregate and deliver a wider range of content, applications and services. Also, for many of these software vendors, this is the first step toward delivering services on demand, making these market alliances key to achieving the Sun ONE vision."

Yahoo and Sun recently announced an alliance to increase corporate productivity by creating an enterprise portal environment that combines business critical applications with personalized information (see announcement May 13, 2002).

"A blended environment of business critical applications and personalized 'content in context' is vital to ensuring Portal adoption," said David Gee, Vice President, Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions. "The integration of Yahoo! aggregated content from over 2000 sources in 13 languages will give Sun ONE portal customers an experience that will engage their audiences and keep their attention on the corporate portal."

About Sun ONE Portal Server 

The Sun ONE Portal Server -- the industry's first portal platform for building B2E, B2B and B2C portals -- enables the personalized delivery of content, services, business processes and applications for enterprises competing in today's competitive environment. It is a key component of the Sun(TM) Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) offering -- an open, integratable product portfolio to enable the development and delivery of services on demand. With more than 385 customers worldwide, the Sun ONE Portal Server (formerly iPlanet(TM) Portal Server) has received significant industry recognition -- ranked 1 in portal marketshare by The Radicati Group ("Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2001-2005") and positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner's Portal Product Magic Quadrant ("Big Change Evident in 2H02 Horizontal Portal Product MQ," May, 2002) -- for two consecutive years.

About Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Architecture 
Sun ONE is Sun's vision, architecture, platform and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Sun ONE validates, improves and extends current enterprise systems, reducing costs and complexity by combining appropriate software products into a coordinated offering that enables services on demand. Sun ONE represents a significant new initiative in Sun's history and builds on Sun's track record across systems and development environments to provide an end-to-end software solution. More information about Sun ONE is available at www.sun.com/sunone.

About Sun Microsystems Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com .

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, iPlanet and "The Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered marks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.