The SOA Consortium has added Sun Microsystems as a high-level Sponsor member, the consortium said on Monday.

Formed a year ago, the consortium advocates SOA adoption by Global 100 companies, government agencies and mid-market businesses. The organization is scheduled to disband in 2010.

“Sun is pleased to be an advocate for the SOA Consortium and the important work it does in moving the industry toward a distributed service-oriented enterprise environment based on open standards,” said Bill Vass, president and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, in a statement released by the consortium.