Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced three new opportunities for startups in the U.S., available through its successful Sun Startup Essentials program, to help early-stage companies get up and running quickly while conserving cash. With the industry-leading Solaris Operating System (OS), a range of innovative technologies and flexible, cost-effective systems, Sun is one of the premier choices for startups to grow their businesses.

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today unveiled new UltraSPARC T2-based servers that deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, increased system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency.

Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today expanded the Fujitsu and Sun SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers – the first servers using the new UltraSPARC® T2 processor.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the winners of its 17th annual Supplier Awards Program. The Best-in-Class and Meritorious Performance Awards recognize companies that make outstanding contributions to Sun’s record of delivering superior technology, quality service and excellent value to its customers.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the formation of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, Sun PASIG, to bring together global leaders in government, broadcasting, education, and library services to share best practices for digital archiving.

Sun Microsystems and Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun, are breaking new ground with a pilot of the ISO 20022 global financial messaging standard for end-to-end payment processing. Running on Sun's own Solaris 10 Operating System, the pilot will help Sun achieve full end-to-end automation of payment processing operations around the world.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that ODIN Fund Management, a leading Nordic fund management company, is using the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) as the integration framework for its adoption of the SWIFTNet messaging infrastructure.

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) was honored as "Best in Class" in its approach to climate change disclosure in a report released today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a coalition of over 315 global investors with more than $41 trillion in assets. The CDP report is a survey of the responses of Financial Times 500 (FT500) corporations on the issue of climate change.

Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), today announced new support subscriptions and enhanced graphical user interfaces to make Solaris Express Developer Edition software easier for developers to install and use.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the GlassFish community, today announced the immediate availability of GlassFish V2, the next major version of the open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server, and its commercially-supported counterpart, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that Sun has signed on as a Windows Server OEM. Additionally, Sun and Microsoft will collaborate to further enable deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems.