31 July 2007

Multimap, one of the world's leading online mapping and location-based services providers, today announced the implementation of its In-line service for many of Sun Microsystems' websites worldwide. Thanks to the site enhancement, visitors to Sun's offices in Europe, Singapore, and some South American countries, are now able to access elegant, accurate and content-rich, interactive maps pinpointing their exact location, in a few seconds.

Simon Bardrick, Group Leader, International Sites, Global Web Publishing, Sun Microsystems, said, "We are constantly evolving our leading-edge products and technologies, and it's of the utmost importance that we keep all our customers abreast of these developments, and fully trained on how to implement and maintain them. A key part of our customer interaction involves on-site support, and there's no better way to get the whole experience off to a good start than by ensuring our customers can find their way to our offices easily and quickly. Whether they're based in Singapore, Argentina, France or the UK, thanks to Multimap's street-level coverage of most countries, they can see exactly where they need to go on an attractive map.

"Given the global nature of our business, it is essential that our mapping provider have the highest-quality and most comprehensive coverage available on the market, on a global scale. Thanks to its strategy of cherry-picking the best data providers for each region and scale, Multimap was the clear choice on this front. Moreover, its competitive and transparent pricing model, the flexibility and robustness of its services, and the availability of its Customer Support team 24x7, made it the clear choice of mapping provider for us," he continued.

To access a list of all the Sun Microsystems office locations in a country of interest, visitors to www.sun.com click on the "Worldwide" link in the top right hand corner of the screen; and select a country followed by the "About Sun" and "Sun Locations" links. To access a street-level, interactive map pinpointing an office's exact whereabouts with the Sun Microsystems logo, they then select the "maps and directions" link. Maps of other office locations in the same country are only a step away; customers simply click on a tab above the map to change their view.

Steve Frost, Multimap's Head of Worldwide B2B Sales, commented, "It is a pleasure to welcome Sun Microsystems to our portfolio of over 1,200 business clients across the globe. We are really pleased with the extremely attractive implementation of our In-line service, which bears testament to the values of excellence in innovation and high-quality of the brand, and we are delighted to hear that feedback from Sun's customers has been suitably positive too!"

About Multimap

Multimap is one of the world's leading providers of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms. We also offer a highly-functional API (Application Programming Interface).

The public website, www.multimap.com, provides a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. The public site attracts over 10 million unique users, registers more than 190 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK.

Multimap recently featured in The Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table of fastest-growing unquoted UK companies across all sectors. In 2006, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Multimap The Queen's Award for Enterprise in the innovation category, and Multimap was one of only three companies to feature in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league of fastest-growing unquoted UK technology companies for the fourth year running. Also in 2006, the company featured in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the UK and Ireland, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for EMEA. Multimap also featured in the Deloitte Touche's Technology Fast 50 league for London and Southern England in 2005 and, in the same year, Red Herring named Multimap as one of the Top 100 private companies in Europe.