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Sun Microsystems and DINMAR Invest in World's First Partner Healthcare Information Technology Research CentreNew Authorized iForceSM Solution Centre for Healthcare IT opens to encourage private sector commitment and investment in healthcare Information Technology Innovation Ottawa, ON - June 22, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), today announced the official opening of the Authorized iForceSM Solution Centre for Healthcare IT, located in Ottawa. The facility is the world's first partner-led healthcare centre, providing state-of-the-art technologies from Sun, DINMAR and others. These companies plan to share their experience and proven methodologies for building, testing and deploying leading IT solutions. This program helps customers, including hospitals, clinics and medical researchers to build and test prototype applications before fully investing in new healthcare technology. One of the key mandates of the Centre is the push for increased interoperability across multi-vendor solutions. The use of open standards-based technology promotes the flow of information, ensuring applications can interact in real time, shortening the time it takes hospital staff to interpret patient data and in turn improve quality of care. Interoperability is also an essential step in healthcare cost reduction. The opening of the new Centre is an important milestone in private investment in healthcare IT. Moreover, it strengthens Sun's position as a leading provider of technology solutions to the global healthcare industry, and a key partner to healthcare technology vendors. As a global repository of healthcare information technology expertise, the Authorized iForce Solution Centre for Healthcare IT enables Sun and DINMAR to share innovative healthcare solutions with current and prospective clients. Sun's iForce Centres are designed to help customers reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership, while increasing productivity through the development and implementation of solutions that address business objectives. The founding members will open the Centre to other vendor organizations later this year. "For more than a dozen years, Sun has been working closely with customers and partners to help transform the healthcare industry by using IT to better connect patients, doctors, hospitals, labs and clinics," said Charles Mair, Executive Director, Global Healthcare, Sun Microsystems Inc. "Technology holds tremendous potential to improve medical quality, increase clinical productivity, and significantly reduce the cost of delivering healthcare across the globe and this new Authorized iForce Solution Centre for Healthcare IT will play a significant part in bettering people's lives." Located within DINMAR's corporate office in Ottawa, the Authorized iForce Solution Centre for Healthcare IT replicates real-world healthcare environments, so customers can securely solve integration challenges in a controlled environment. It also provides customers with support through the entire solution development and implementation process, from initial concepts, to pilot program development and actual implementation. Healthcare customers will have access to a range of Sun and DINMAR technologies, including SPARC® processor-based servers, SolarisTM 10 Operating System (OS), Sun RayTM ultra-thin client technology, Sun StorEdgeTM arrays and the Oacis EHR solution. "For over a decade, DINMAR has helped numerous healthcare organizations around the globe to align their IT solutions with organizational goals," said DINMAR's CEO Mark Groper. "Our collaboration with Sun reflects DINMAR's strong commitment to accelerating the development of standards-based, interoperable, global e-health solutions." In addition to real-world simulations, customers can visit the Centre to see working demonstrations of:
"Technology has always been central to medical care, and as healthcare institutions strive to enhance care quality, we look to leaders in the vendor community that are willing to step forward and share their expertise," said Tom Schonberg, President and CEO, Queensway Carleton Hospital. "As we move towards greater interoperability in our various healthcare applications, it is important from a business and patient care perspective that we work with companies that understand the importance of sharing their knowledge." The Authorized iForce Solution Centre for Healthcare IT is another example of Sun's commitment to the Healthcare Industry. Sun is also actively involved in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, the 'backbone' for the next generation of healthcare service provision, providing a secure electronic health record for every English patient. Sun is responsible for the design, building and operation of the infrastructure systems, jointly delivered with BT and CSW Health, which will assist in connecting more than 30,000 health care practitioners and 270 Hospital Trusts. There are 50 partner-run Authorized iForce Solution Centres worldwide; more than 75 solutions-specific iForce Solution Centres; and nine iForce Competency Program Centres focused on application partners such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel. More than 85 application partners worldwide have their solutions installed in iForce Centres. More information on Sun's iForce Centres is available at http://www.sun.com/executives/iforce/centers/. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. About DINMAR NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Sun Fire, Solaris, Sun StorEdge and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more information, contact:
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