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Sun Microsystems Inc., a leader in systems and solutions that make the net work, and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, said that the companies have formed an alliance to increase corporate productivity by creating an enterprise portal environment that blends business critical applications with personalised information. The blended solution of personalised content and services from Yahoo! combined with the functionality of the industry leading (reported by The Radicati Group, "Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2001-2005") the Sun(tm) ONE Portal Server (formerly the iPlanet(tm) Portal Server) will deliver the portal environment necessary to make significant return on investment possible.

With Yahoo!) leading reach into the workplace (72.9%, reported by Nielsen/NetRatings, March 2002) and proven ability to aggregate and integrate high-value, personalised content with corporate applications, SunONE Portal customers will be able to quickly improve employee productivity.

"In the context of business portals, personalisation and high-quality content are the msot persistent sources of customer value," said Hadley Reynolds, Research Director at Delphi Group. "The relationship between Sun and Yahoo! accelerates the process of workplace provisioning for Sun ONE Portal users, and offers instant dial tone for focused business information at the professional desktop", he said.

Increasingly, executives are relying upon corporate portals and portal computing to accelerate communications, increase productivity, and meet the changing information needs of end-users. In order to increase adoption and retention of these portals, a wide variety of information and a compelling user experience is necessary to ensure the portal is used to its full potential, and thereby increase return on investment. To meet this need, Sun ONE Portal Server customers will receive a free 120-day trial period with pre-integrated "instant-on access to more than 2,000 content sources, from 25 countries, in 13 languages through Yahoo's "My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition."

"Personalised content is what makes the portals more relevant, and thereby makes the portal a central force for productivity. The breadth of personalised, high quality content and ease-of-use that we are delivering is essential for CIOs looking to attract and retain portal users, and in turn, to fully realise the ROI and TCO potential," said Steven Nathan, Vice President and General Manager, Sun ONE Portal and Communication Services for Sun Microsystems. "Our joint customers can now deliver mission-critical business applications, data and services, combined with the popular personalised, Internet content and services that many end users access on a daily basis," he said.

The leader in portal market share, the Sun ONE Portal Server, has received industry recognition including "Leadership Quadrant" ranking in the Gartner Group's Magic Quadrant for two consecutive years. The Sun ONE Portal Server is the industry's first portal platform, enabling delivery of content, services, business processes and applications in personalised portals for enterprises competing in today's competitive environment. The Sun ONE Portal Server is part of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) offering - an open, integratabel product portfolio to enable the development and delivery of services on demand.

Sun ONE, the integration of Sun's award-winning portfolio of software products, is Sun's vision, architecture, platform, and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Through its open, integratable architecture, Sun ONE extends current enterprise systems to help reduce costs and complexity while improving organisations' return on assets. Sun ONE represents a significant initiative in Sun's evolution to providing an open end-to-end architecture building on the company's offerings across systems and development environments.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! reaches more than 237 million individuals worldwide each month, and is the No. 1 Internet brand globally. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif, Yahoo!s global network incldues 25 World properties and is available in 13 languages.

Sun Microsystems since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - "The Network Is The Computer" - has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) 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 or the Asia South webstie at http://sun.com.sg. 

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