Sydney, Australia, 4 February 2009. Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Andrew Goodlace has been appointed acting managing director for Australia and New Zealand. Goodlace was most recently director of sales for Australia & New Zealand and has extensive experience managing sales and operations including Sun's federal government business. Goodlace replaces Duncan Bennet who has resigned to pursue other interests.

"Duncan is highly respected by his peers, staff and colleagues in the industry and we thank him for his exceptional leadership and many contributions over the last 10 years" said Lionel Lim, president, Asia Pacific, Sun Microsystems. "During his time at Sun, Bennet has consistently grown market share for the Australia &: New Zealand operations and developed a high performing sales team."

Goodlace has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry managing sales and partner engagement teams as well as previous managing director roles with several IT companies. With years of experience selling complex solutions, Goodlace's expertise has resulted in numerous customer wins for Sun.

"Andrew is a talented and experienced leader with a long history in delivering outstanding business results. His impressive sales track-record, strong knowledge of customer needs and interest in developing his people will ensure we continue to execute our growth strategy and build awareness of Sun's solutions and open source technology," Lim said.

Commenting on his time at Sun, Bennet said: "I have had 10 exciting and rewarding years at Sun and I am extremely proud of the people I work with. The recent success and growth in Australia and New Zealand would not have been possible without their talent, energy and commitment. While this is a difficult economic environment the market has responded positively to the initiatives that are helping our customers get more out of their IT, whether it be energy savings, Open Storage or virtualization."

Goodlace said, "It is an exciting time to be with Sun ANZ. The Australia and New Zealand operation has performed well and the local market has responded positively to Sun's latest initiatives to help customers get more out of their IT systems and services. Going forward, we will continue to focus on innovations that help our customers save time and resources.

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