Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment Provides High
Availability Platform for Business-critical Applications

Or-Yehuda, Israel and Palo Alto, Calif.- February 8, 2001 - Mutek Solutions LTD and Sun Microsystems, Inc. are working together to deliver Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder on the Sun(TM) platform. As part of the joint development and marketing agreement, Mutek will deliver a Solaris(TM) Operating Environment-based version of its Server Black Box Flight Recorder for business-critical applications, providing customers with a powerful combination of
Sun's highly scalable and reliable infrastructure with Mutek's application availability management and service level solutions.

With these advanced high-availability solutions, enterprise applications, data centers, e-commerce and collaborative online exchange businesses can improve their customer loyalty and revenue opportunities by delivering high-availability environments resulting in improved quality of service.

Black Box Flight Recorders for Business Critical Applications

Mutek's solutions help maintain maximum application availability by alerting IT staff to application errors, and by pinpointing the root cause of those errors so that they can be fixed quickly. Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for software operates for business-critical applications much like an airplane's in-flight recorder, however, it is often capable of alerting
system administrators before application and system failures occur. The Black Box Flight Recorder transparently records the online operation of applications and delivers system alerts to the IT department about software and system irregularities and errors, often before they significantly effect business operations. No modifications are required to an enterprise's applications or the system in integrating Mutek's solutions. Mutek's solutions record application activity at multiple levels, from the user's experience, through the system-level operations and application performance and down to the program's code lines executed by the running process. When there is a software or system error, IT support can access the Black Box Flight Recorder via the network and playback the error scenario to pinpoint the root cause of the problem. Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder solutions include Black Boxes for servers and clients, with front-end consoles for configuration, root cause analysis, as well as Black Box management.

The Mutek solution for the Sun platform complements the existing suite of Sun eRisk solutions, which help its customers mitigate the risk involved in establishing, upgrading and maintaining mission-critical computing environments. By proactively monitoring the system, the Sun eRisk portfolio of solutions helps IT personnel ensure maximum application and overall system performance by alerting the need to reconfigure when components are stressed.

"Companies need to keep their businesses on track by identifying and repairing IT problems at their source," said Doug Kaewert, vice president, Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Important risk management partners like Mutek are critical to Sun in delivering solutions for applications running on the Sun platform that help our customers ensure maximum possible availability."

"High availability of applications provides a company with strong competitive advantage but the complexity of the computing environment is making it increasingly more difficult to maintain availability and identify the root cause of problems" said Yochi Slonim, president and CEO, Mutek Solutions. "Sun's highly scalable and reliable platform together with Mutek's Application Availability Management solutions will help customers meet that challenge".

About Mutek Solutions

Mutek Solutions LTD develops and markets software solutions that improve the availability of business critical software applications. The Company's Black Box Flight Recorders for software applications provide online alerts prior to system failures; record and playback software malfunctions and pinpoint the root cause of crashes and other errors in server and desktop applications. Mutek's customers include e-business and traditional blue chip companies in the computer and software industry, financial services, telecom and cellular operators, manufacturing and industrial companies.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The ComputerTM" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $17.6 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.

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