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Slide 1: Sun Startup Essentials Bakshish Dutta General Manager – Startups and Emerging Markets 1

Slide 2: Plan and Build Sun Startup Essentials Program for Success sun.com/startup Available in: ●Over 2500 applications to date ●US ●66% customers are web 2.0 ●India ●70% customers are on Solaris ●China ●Israel Great Sun Run ●UK hardware at Solaris, ●Canada great prices Linux, & ●France Windows ●Germany Free Free help Discounted software tools with Web technical hosting & community services from support questions partners Sun Confidential: Internal Only 2

Slide 3: Universal Startup Challenges Ready for wild Cash in short Racing to get success? supply? to market? IT partners keeping pace as you grow? Sun Confidential: Internal Only 3

Slide 4: Sun Startup Essentials Program Sun helps startups... Conserve Cash Faster to Market Plan for Success with Architecture that Scales Sun Confidential: Internal Only 4

Slide 5: Startups may wonder... Am I too small? Can I choose What do I order? my OS? No company is too Sun runs We'll help you small for Sun popular OS's choose Sun Confidential: Internal Only 5

Slide 6: Are You Eligible in India ? • Less than 4 years? • Maximum 150 employees? • Based in India? in.sun.com/startup Sun Confidential: Internal Only 6

Slide 7: We want to be your Tech Partner Sun Confidential: Internal Only 7

Slide 8: Happy Startups Sun Innovation Delivering Superior Value to Startups ''We are powered by Sun X2100, “Numbers don't lie - we experienced X4100 and X4500, we get these a 300% performance increase after servers from SSE program in we started using the T1000s. In a China. I am very proud that from third of the space at a third of the the very beginning, Tkoon.com.cn power consumption...” is running on the best platform of the world! This will ensure our web -- Warren Habib, CTO, Fotolog to be the number one in talent sharing and the best place to “We got great discounts on Sun marketing yourself!" range of products as well as web - Jijun Sun, Founder and CEO, hosting. ... In addition, we have the Tkoon.com.cn promise of direction and support on key industry leading technologies. ... More importantly, we have the “Solaris is a better Linux than Linux” assurance of invaluable technical -- Marc Andreessen, assistance and product roadmaps Co-Founder, Ning and Netscape from Sun. ” – Subir Pal, CEO, ChannelMentor Sun Confidential: Internal Only 8

Slide 9: Great Deals on Industry-leading Servers Full Line of Sun x64 servers with AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® Sun UltraSPARC servers with CoolThreads provide High Throughput with the Lowest Power Consumption Sun Fire™ X4450 server. World's smallest, 4 socket x64, quad-core 2U server Sun Confidential: Internal Only 9

Slide 10: World Class Storage Solutions • Choice > FC/SATA, NAS, SAN, SCSI > Heterogeneous • High performance > Reliable and scalable • Innovation > Hybrid solutions such as Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) – “The world's first Web 2.0 server” (Tim O'Reilly) Save up to 60 percent!!! Sun Confidential: Internal Only 10

Slide 11: Looking to • Partnering with leading web hosting companies Host Your Services? • Providing highly flexible, scalable and secure Let someone else do hosting environments... the heavy lifting • ...at low discounted prices for participating members NEW! Sun Confidential: Internal Only 11

Slide 12: Free, Optimized Software for Startups! • Solaris and OpenSolaris™ • SAMP: Solaris + AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP...) • Developer tools (NetBeans™, Sun Studio) • Sun Java™ Enterprise Solaris — Free. Open. Everywhere. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 12

Slide 13: Sun Acquires MySQL > Re-affirms Sun's: > Startup Benefits – position as the leading provider of – Sun's investment to improve platforms for the Web economy & performance, scalability, largest commercial open source integration, and ease of use i.e. contributor DTrace – commitment to support customers & – Full spectrum for the Internet and ISVs who choose to implement Web 2.0 (MySQL, OpenSolaris, open source solutions GlassFish, java.net, NetBeans) – Greater choice in fully supported, enterprise-grade databases (support, learning, and professional services) Sun Confidential: Internal Only 13

Slide 14: Free Technical Help! • Access to Sun Geeks • Free e-mail engineering support • Architecture and systems consultation • Free training & courses • Forums — innovate • Communities — share Accelerate development cycles Sun Confidential: Internal Only 14

Slide 15: Join Now! in.sun.com/startup Sun Confidential: Internal Only 15

Slide 16: Thank You Bakshish.Dutta@Sun.Com 16