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SUN INTRODUCES OPEN LOOK USER INTERFACE DESIGN TOOL FOR DEVELOPERS
 
OpenWindows Application Environment Now Being Shipped
  
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --September 25, 1989-- Sun Microsystems today
introduced a design tool called GUIDE(TM) (Graphical User Interface
Design Editor) that enables developers to quickly build an OPEN
LOOK(TM) graphical user interface for their applications.  The GUIDE
tool enhances Sun's rich OpenWindows(TM) application environment, which
includes OPEN LOOK.  When combined with Sun's powerful SPARC(TM)
systems based on RISC   and UNIX(R) operating system, OpenWindows
delivers a high-performance, low-cost, easy-to-use desktop solution for
the demanding computing needs of the 90s.

The new GUIDE prototyper is an interactive tool that features a palette
of icons that represent various objects (window control functions,
scrollbars, menus).  Rather than writing code, a developer can merely
"drag" an icon with the mouse and "drop" it in the desired location.
The GUIDE tool automatically generates the user interface code, thereby
saving significant development time.

With GUIDE, developers can build and test the "look and feel" of an
OPEN LOOK user interface layout without ever writing any code.  Since
GUIDE is integrated with the desktop tools that are part of
OpenWindows, applications designed with it can offer "drag and drop"
file loading.  End users simply select and drag an icon into a window
and the application will automatically load.

"Close to 300 developers now have our OpenWindows environment," said Ed
Zander, Sun's vice president of marketing.  "We believe that GUIDE will
further increase commitment to our SPARC platform, which has had sales
to date of more than 25,000 systems.  Using OpenWindows and GUIDE, a
whole new generation of easy-to-use applications can take advantage of
SPARC's high performance.  Already, there are 800 SPARCware(TM)
applications available   far exceeding any other RISC system."

OpenWindows Now Being Shipped

Sun's OpenWindows was introduced last March and includes the intuitive
OPEN LOOK user interface (based on technology licensed from Xerox;
designed by Sun, AT&T and the industry), the X11/NeWS(TM) window system
(combining X11 with Sun's NeWS, based on the PostScript imaging
language) and the XView(TM) toolkit, for designing OPEN LOOK
applications.  It is now being shipped in volume for developers.  Said
Zander: "We expect many OPEN LOOK-based products to be unveiled in the
coming months."

OpenWindows has been enriched with Sun's OpenFonts(TM) and
DeskSet(TM).  OpenFonts is sophisticated font technology that allow
users to create high-resolution fonts at any point size or angle of
rotation.  It features more than 200 available fonts.

DeskSet is a suite of everyday tools that utilizes Sun's "drag and
drop" metaphor.  It includes a file manager that graphically displays a
hierarchical file system; a mail tool; a binder; an icon editor; a text
editor; a snapshot tool; performance meters; a clock; and a
wastebasket.


Pricing and Availability

The GUIDE prototyper runs on Release 4.X of the SunOS(TM) operating
system on the X11/NeWS window system.  GUIDE media, documentation and a
right-to-use license will be sold unbundled for $250.  It will be
available in the first quarter of 1990.

An OpenWindows right-to-use license is being shipped at no charge with
every Sun workstation.  This will enable customer sites with many Sun
systems to use OpenWindows at no charge.  OpenWindows media and
documentation are priced at $295.

The XView toolkit is also available at no charge as part of the X11,
Release 4 tape from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  The
elements of OpenWindows will be a standard part of UNIX    System V,
Release 4, to be introduced by AT&T.

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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GUIDE, OpenWindows, X11/NeWS, OpenFonts, DeskSet and SunOS are
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  OPEN LOOK is a trademark of
AT&T.  UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.  All other products or
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