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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For those of you on the list who are SUN fans <G> like
myself…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Sun
Microsystems Expands High Performance Computing Portfolio with Definitive
Agreement to Acquire Assets of Cluster File Systems, Including the Lustre File
System<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-weight:bold'><!-- END G14 COMPONENT V.9 -->Sun to Offer Most Complete and
Open Solution for Solaris and Linux HPC Clusters</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><!-- BEGIN SECTION SUB HEADER -->SANTA
CLARA, Calif. September 12, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today
announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the
majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s intellectual property and business
assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems,
Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing
Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As
previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on
top of Sun's industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of
the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.</span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Robert Wolfe [MCP/Linux+] <a
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