Sun Powers TurboTax Online Through Another Successful Tax Season

This tax season, Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) again turned to Sun Microsystems to power TurboTax Online, the leading online tax preparation service. Powered by the Solaris(TM) operating system and Sun's servers, TurboTax Online provides a fast, secure, and reliable way for millions of taxpayers to prepare their tax returns online. Intuit has relied on Sun technology for the past five years and last year, deployed Sun equipment to support the increasing number of TurboTax Online customers.

"Our customers rely on TurboTax Online to be ready when they are, no matter when they sit down to do their taxes," said Jim Fitzpatrick, Intuit SVP & CIO. "Sun helps to ensure that TurboTax Online is up and running by delivering a proven, reliable, high performance experience on platforms that scale to meet even the heavy last minute tax filing demands."

To meet the increasing demand for online tax preparation, TurboTax Online was architected to scale both vertically and horizontally; Sun Fire(TM) 4800 servers are used to scale vertically and Sun Fire v440 are used to scale horizontally; all of which run the Solaris OS. In addition to supporting TurboTax, Intuit uses Sun Fire 15Ks to power its ERP, HR, real estate and customer management applications. Intuit uses similar Sun platforms to run its advanced disaster recovery solution and runs key portions of its business on components of the Java Enterprise System, including its Directory Server.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- 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 sun.com. Subscribe to Sun newswire at http://sun.com/news .

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

Mark Richardson

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

650.257-4038

Mark.richardson@sun.com

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