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Dublin, January 29th, 2007: Sun Microsystems Inc, (NASDAQ: SUNW), the creator of Solaris ™, today announced the appointment of Declan Carr as Sales Manager for Ireland. Declan will be responsible for driving Sun's business in Ireland. Declan joined Sun in 2005 as part of the StorageTek acquisition where he worked in its Data Management group. Prior to the acquisition Declan worked for StorageTek as channel manager in its Irish subsidiary and was appointed a director of StorageTek Ireland Limited in 2002. Prior to joining StorageTek, Carr worked with AIB for 23 years with responsibility for its storage environment. Declan holds a Bachelor of Financial Services from UCD, a C Dip AF from ACCA and an Advanced Computer Programming from Trinity College. For more information, please contact: 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://www.sun.com. About Sun in Ireland Sun has been doing business in Ireland since the company's inception in 1982 when one of its first customers was Trinity College Dublin. In 1991 Sun expanded its sales and marketing operations in Ireland with the establishment of a strategic business partnership with Horizon Open Systems, a wholly Irish owned company. Working with Horizon Open Systems, Sun has become the leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions and services to the Irish marketplace. Sun employs 160 people directly at its Software Development Centre (SDC) in Dublin. The Centre, established in 1993, provides strategic software engineering and development, as well as software localisation and system test. The company has also established collaborative research programmes with a number of third level colleges in Ireland. Sun's SDC can be found on the worldwide web at: http://www.sun.ie/ |
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