Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited

Fujitsu Announces Solaris™ 10 is Available on PRIMEPOWER Servers

Provides customers with the most innovative hardware platform for the industry's most advanced UNIX® OS

Hong Kong, January 31, 2005 — Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited, a leading provider of customer-focused information technology and telecommunications (IT & T) solutions and services, today announced that Solaris™10 Operating System from Sun Microsystems is PRIMEPOWER ready. The Solaris 10 operating system is the most innovative and business critical UNIX® OS in the market, assuring customers of the highest levels of reliability, flexibility and ease-of-use, all inside a secure operating environment. The PRIMEPOWER-Solaris combination ensures customers that their Business Critical Computing environments, running mission-critical applications and databases stay up and running securely, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.

PRIMEPOWER has been a premier platform for Solaris since 1998. With outstanding performance records, Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers, from 2-processor systems through 128-processor systems, are leading the way in the field of UNIX servers. The outstanding performance capability is accompanied by the highest level of data processing reliability in the UNIX RISC server market. The addition of Solaris 10 to this impressive product family increases the overall market acceptance and enhances its competitiveness.

PRIMEPOWER servers are 100% compatible with the Solaris Operating Environment. In addition, any application developed using standard Solaris Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs) will run on PRIMEPOWER servers without modification, including middleware software products offered from Sun (http://www.sun.com/servers/fujitsu).

"The release of Solaris 10 is greeted with excitement by customers and industry. Solaris 10 provides the huge installed base and the thousands of application developers with new functionality, security and reduced complexity," said Herbert Chan, Marketing Manager, Fujitsu Hong Kong. "With PRIMEPOWER and Solaris 10, we offer the customer the best choice for their infrastructures."

Solaris 10 new offerings and features fit perfectly in Fujitsu's TRIOLE strategy for empowering future-ready dynamic data centres. The TRIOLE strategy stands for the design, development and deployment of products, solutions and services to help users align optimizing their IT infrastructure. It will allow customers to enhance business efficiency, increase business agility and improve business continuity. PRIMEPOWER servers are a core product line in TRIOLE scenarios for optimized IT, and combined with Solaris 10 they will deliver incredible value to customers.

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About Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited

Fujitsu Hong Kong, a leading technology company, is one of the largest providers of customer-focused information technology and telecommunications (IT & T) solutions and services for organizations in Hong Kong. With more than 50 years of experience and as part of the Fujitsu Group-a global family of IT & T infrastructure experts-Fujitsu Hong Kong extends its expertise across the enterprise and around the region. Fujitsu Hong Kong is able to support and optimize world-class IT & T infrastructure for organizations in the region that require to gain a global and competitive edge needed for a sustainable future. Major customers include Government of HKSAR, Cathay Pacific Airlines, PCCW, and more. For more information, please visit http://hk.fujitsu.com

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