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SUN FEDERAL WINS CONTRACT WITH NASA AMES FOR SPARC-BASED WORKSTATIONS
 
Second Major Government Win in Last Two Months
 
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--October 2, 1989-- Sun Microsystems Federal,
Inc., today announced it will supply powerful SPARC(TM)-based computer
workstations to the Ames Research Center -- a field laboratory of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- to be used for
scientific and aeronautical research.  Sun has been awarded one of four
contracts under the NASA Ames interactive computer environment
modernization program.  The estimated total aggregate value of the
contracts over the seven-year period will be $97 million.  This is the
second recent major government win for Sun Federal, following the $115
million Navy Desktop Tactical Computer contract that was awarded in
August to Sun and C3, a leading systems integrator.

Ames Research, with two locations at Moffett Field and Drysden, Calif.,
will use the Sun workstations for tasks in computational fluid
dynamics, computational chemistry, wind tunnel research, flight
dynamics, airborne science and space life sciences.  Deliveries are
slated to begin as early as November 1989.

Sun is supplying its SPARC family of workstations, along with its
standard UNIX(R) operating system, SunOS(TM).  In addition, Sun will
provide the X11/NeWS(TM) windowing system, the XView(TM) toolkit,
intuitive OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface, standard Network File
System (NFS(TM)), SunGKS(TM), SunPHIGS(TM) graphics software, and C and
FORTRAN compilers.  The company will also provide installation, support
and on-site analyst services.

"These two recent government wins show that government users are
turning to the performance, power and cost effectiveness that Sun
workstations provide," said Larry Hambly, president of Sun Microsystems
Federal.


Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.

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