SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- February 7, 2006 --Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that VeriSign, Inc. has successfully used Sun's x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers based on the AMD Opteron processor to lower costs and provide critical scalability and reliability for its Advanced Transaction Look-up and Signaling (ATLAS) global infrastructure. Running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the Sun Fire V40z server performs nearly two million transactions per second, helping companies achieve greater processing efficiencies for large-scale IT infrastructure. VeriSign has now added Sun's new x64 server, the Sun Fire X2100, to its internet infrastructure that manages over 15 billion transactions per day in operating .com and .net.

ATLAS is a sophisticated platform designed to scale the Internet's core infrastructure, the Domain Name System (DNS), and support emerging voice, data and multimedia services delivered via the Internet. Using the Solaris 10 OS and Sun Fire x64 servers, ATLAS manages billions of transactions each day and is incredibly reliable, providing greater than 99.999 percent data integrity and service and thwarting Internet attacks such as Denial-of-Service (DoS).

"As Internet use continues to expand globally, ATLAS is tasked with keeping pace and maintaining the same levels of reliability and performance that the world's users have come to expect from the Internet. Emerging next-generation services such as voice over IP (VoIP) and video recording and distributing are data-intensive and require massive bandwidth from our infrastructure," said John Bosco, Director of Systems Engineering, VeriSign, Inc. "Sun is taking an innovative approach with its Sun Fire x64 servers, which leverage the strengths of the AMD Opteron processor, and provide great reliability, availability and scalability."

Deploying New Sun Servers

Powered by AMD Opteron processors with impressive performance-per-watt, and running the Solaris 10 OS, the Sun Fire X2100 server is the fastest single-socket x64 server available and the most cost-effective solution in its class.

"As the Internet's premier provider of intelligent infrastructure, VeriSign has a challenging task: it needs to constantly maintain and upgrade its systems to support astronomical growth. The fact that a company with this type of computing demands chose our x64 servers running Solaris as a core platform helps to validate the Sun and AMD solution as a leading industry-standard server platform," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's Network Systems Group. "The Sun Fire X2100 servers are among the fastest, coolest and most cost-effective x64 servers available today, and are dependable solutions for a company like VeriSign."

About VeriSign

VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world's voice and data networks. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to successfully develop and market new services and the uncertainty of whether new services as provided by VeriSign will achieve market acceptance or result in any revenues. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

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