Sun Microsystems Releases New Versions of Role Manager and Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Brings Significant Improvements to Access Controls and Compliance with Role
Manager; Optimizes Performance and Scalability with Directory Server to Protect
Millions of Users and Applications
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new versions of Sun Role
Manager software and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition, offering
organizations updated tools to intelligently manage their identity portfolio.
Customers will benefit from increased business transparency and compliance,
simplified access controls, as well as better performance and scalability. For
more information about Sun Role Manager 5.0 and Sun Directory Server Enterprise
Edition 7.0, visit: http://www.sun.com/rolemanager and http://www.sun.com/dsee.

"Our customers will like the products we are announcing today because they were
designed to impact their bottom line," said Daniel Raskin, chief identity
strategist, Sun Microsystems. "Companies are looking for better ways to achieve
and maintain compliance, as well as extend their identity management solutions
to the extranet. Advanced technologies available in Sun Role Manager software
and Directory Server Enterprise Edition will help our customers scale their
businesses, while protecting millions of users and hundreds of applications
without headaches."

Sun Role Manager 5.0 Software Leads Industry with Comprehensive Compliance
Features

New features in Sun Role Manager 5.0 software enable organizations to move
beyond answering the question of "who has access to what?" to "what did users do
with their access?" by offering a 360-degree view of assigned user access to
data and applications. With this new feature, IT and business managers are able
to more intelligently govern the definition, assignment and enforcement of
access within their organizations. Sun Role Manager software is one of the first
integrated role-based provisioning and auditing solutions to use business roles,
such as job function and title, to assign, attest, audit, and enforce access
across the enterprise.

Sun has also added key enhancements to Sun Role Manager software, including
closed-loop remediation and rule lifecycle management, making Sun one of the
first vendors to offer enterprises a more complete and automated set of tools
for reviewing user access, removing inappropriately assigned access, as well as
showing auditors how and why access to data and applications was assigned. In
addition, Sun Role Manager 5.0 software allows organizations to test "what-if"
scenarios to determine the impact changes to rules will have on the access
assignment process before they are implemented. The new software also provides
users with a Web-service interface for remote execution of both rule assignment
and separation-of-duty (SOD) rules.

"Express Scripts currently has both Sun`s Identity Manager and Role Manager
software in production. Both products are integrated, providing a seamless
on-boarding experience that has allowed us to reduce what typically took several
days down to hours," said Matthew Modica, senior manager of IT Security, Express
Scripts, Inc.

Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Boosts Speed and Performance

Considered one of the best extranet LDAP Directory Servers in the market today,
the latest version of Directory Server Enterprise Edition allows enterprises to
accelerate growth in a simplified way, improve performance and lower total cost
of ownership. Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 has been optimized to
improve performance by more than three times when compared to its predecessor.
In addition, this release provides innovations that improve authentication and
modification performance by 60 percent, allowing customers to accelerate their
applications without changing one line of code.

Sun`s Comprehensive Identity Management Portfolio

Sun offers a complete identity management portfolio that provides open access,
open source and open standards. Sun supports major protocols, including SAML,
WS-Federation, WS-Trust, WS-Security, WS-Policy, Liberty ID-FF and WS-I BSP. For
information on Sun's identity management portfolio, visit:
http://www.sun.com/identity.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace.
Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- Sun drives
network participation through shared innovation, community development and open
source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at
http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, and The Network Is The Computer are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its
subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

Sun Microsystems
Erica Pereira, 650-264-2329
erica.pereira@sun.com

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