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 		    KAVNER RESIGNS FROM SUN'S BOARD
  
SunFLASH Vol 20 #24					 	August 1990 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Aug. 23, 1990-- Sun Microsystems and AT&T today
announced the resignation of Robert M. Kavner from Sun's board of
directors.  Kavner, who is AT&T's group executive for data systems and
federal systems, joined Sun's board in June, 1988, as AT&T's designee
under the terms of the stock purchase agreement dated January 4, 1988
between the two companies.  AT&T has indicated that it does not intend
to exercise its right under that agreement to designate a replacement
for Kavner.

Kavner stated, "My service as a member of Sun's board of directors has
been extremely rewarding for me.  The original intention behind having
an AT&T designee on Sun's board was to help assure that the two
companies worked smoothly in their joint development efforts with
respect to UNIX(R) System V, Release 4 (SVR4).

"The availability of SVR4 with OPEN LOOK(R), Open Network Computing
(ONC(TM)) and other key technologies was announced in November of last
year and the bulk of the joint development work has now been
completed.  The quality of SVR4 and its acceptance in the marketplace
as a volume standard is a clear testament to the effective way in which
AT&T and Sun met a difficult and, perhaps, unprecedented challenge.

"I think one measure of our joint effort's success is the increasing
frequency with which Sun and AT&T find themselves competing in the
marketplace, raising potential conflicts of interest.  Accordingly, and
in order to remove this concern, I felt this was an appropriate time to
leave the Sun board and to devote all of my energies to my AT&T
responsibilities.  For the same reasons, AT&T has decided not to
designate a successor.

"Sun and AT&T will continue their close working relationship in a broad
variety of endeavors," stated Kavner.  "For example, Sun will procure a
substantial number of custom ASICs from AT&T and is also a significant
user of AT&T's StarLAN local area network, while AT&T is a very large
customer of Sun workstations.  We will continue our ongoing work,
together with UNIX International, to strengthen SVR4's acceptance as
the UNIX standard.

"AT&T is, of course, a large holder of Sun common stock.  We expect to
remain a substantial shareholder of Sun Microsystems and have no
current plans to liquidate any substantial portion of our holdings."

Scott McNealy, chairman, president and CEO of Sun, said, "Over the last
two years, Bob Kavner has been an outstanding member of Sun's board of
directors.  The successful introduction of SVR4 demonstrates his
contribution to the smooth working relationship between the two
companies.  Moreover, his background and experience were invaluable to
the company during a period of extremely rapid growth.  We understand
Bob's desire to devote his full time and attention to his important
responsibilities at AT&T, but we are certainly sorry to see him leave."

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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