SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND FUJI XEROX
LAUNCH JOINT SOFTWARE VENTURE IN JAPAN

TOKYO   February 13, 1989   Sun Microsystems and Fuji Xerox Company,
Ltd., have founded a joint venture named UNISOL Corporation to be based
in Tokyo, the companies announced today.  Sun and Fuji Xerox -- a
Japanese affiliate of Xerox Corp. -- have contributed a total of $4
million to establish UNISOL, which will develop and sell UNIX    and
OPEN LOOK TM -based productivity software for Japan's fast-growing
workstation market.  The availability of these "Japanized" productivity
applications is expected to further increase the wide adoption of the
UNIX operating system in Japan.

This is the first time Sun Microsystems has participated in such a
joint venture.

UNISOL will develop application software based on UNIX System V from
AT&T, which is the industry's leading UNIX standard.  Japan's Ministry
of International Trade and Industry (MITI), through the Sigma Project,
has adopted System V as its UNIX standard.  Both Sun and Fuji Xerox are
members of UNIX International, an organization of leading computer
companies that is working to establish AT&T's System V Release 4 as the
world's future UNIX standard.

UNISOL will focus on developing application software to run on the
SPARC TM -based Sun-4 TM  workstation series and Sun's other hardware
platforms.  Later, UNISOL plans to expand its software offering to
non-Sun platforms that operate under System V Release 4.

Initially selling its products in Japan, UNISOL will extend its
operations to other countries in the Far East sometime in the future.
The Japanese language products to be developed by the company will be
sold anywhere in the world.  UNISOL expects its first products to
appear at the end of l989.

The new company will initially focus on desktop productivity software,
such as word processing, databases and related applications.  Besides
developing its own products, UNISOL will also concentrate on converting
existing UNIX applications to the Japanese market.

Appointed as chairman and chief executive officer of UNISOL was Kimio
Tsuzuki, who was previously with Fuji Xerox.


Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, established as an
equally capitalized joint venture company between Fuji Photo Film Co.,
Ltd. and Rank Xerox Ltd. in London on 20th February l962.  It was the
first company to introduce the plain paper copier to the Japanese
market.  Fuji Xerox expanded its business area to engineering-copying
systems, local area network, facsimile, printers, AI, workstations,
etc. with a respective reputation in the Japanese marketplace.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is one
of the world's leading suppliers of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.  Nihon Sun Microsystems is
a wholly owned subsidiary which is located in Japan and provides sales,
service and marketing to the Japanese marketplace.


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