NEW YORK: Sun Microsystems, Inc. today made several game changing announcements, including the early arrival of its revolutionary new 9.6 GHz-based systems, led by the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology.

The company also announced its intent to open source the company's massively threaded processor technology to further lower the barriers to innovation and application development.

As part of this global product roll-out, taking place over the next two weeks in more than 25 countries, Sun will showcase support for its new server line and UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor from a wide range of global technology leaders including Oracle, Symantec and BEA.