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SUN AUTOMATES SCOTTISH COURTS ADMINISTRATION IN $5 MILLION ORDER
   
SunFLASH Vol 20 #31					 	August 1990 
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            Major SPARC Win for Sun in Legal Market
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--August 27, 1990-- Sun Microsystems has won an
order worth more than $5 million (U.S.) from the Scottish Courts
Administration (SCA), headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, to automate
the administration of criminal cases in the country's Sheriff courts.

As a result of the order, Sun hardware will be installed in all of
Scotland's 49 Sheriff Courts.  Larger courts will use networks of
SPARCstations(TM) and SPARCservers(TM), while smaller courts -- for
example, some of those in the Western Isles -- will use a single
SPARCstation.  In total, 21 SPARCstation 330 deskside workstations and
75 SPARCserver 1+ servers, with a range of monitors, laser and impact
printers and networking devices will be purchased.

Sun's solution meets the requirements of the SCA's Criminal Operations
Project (COP).  These systems will support the court stage and
accounting stage of criminal cases: it will record events in each case
as they happen; produce all the necessary minutes and court orders;
create, operate and reconcile accounts for the collection of financial
penalties; and produce warnings on non-completion of events, such as a
non-payment.  Disposals, such as a fine or a community service order,
can be entered into a system in the courtroom at the moment that it is
decided.

The application software for COP was developed by the SCA itself, using
ORACLE.  Ian Scott, head of the SCA's Operational Review Team and
project manager for COP, said:  "We selected the Sun solution because
it met all our criteria.  It was a cost-effective offering that gave us
not only the response times that we needed but the memory and storage
capacity, too."

Equipment is currently being installed at the SCA's headquarters in
Edinburgh.  Installation in the courts will begin in October.

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(R)
operating system and productivity software.

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