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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
	SUN MICROSYSTEMS ANNOUNCES PROGRAMS TO SYSTEMATICALLY
		REPURCHASE SHARES OF ITS COMMON STOCK
   
SunFLASH Vol 24 #14					       December 1990 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA  --December 13, 1990--  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
(SUNW), today announced the adoption of systematic repurchase programs
which will enable Sun to repurchase in the open market a portion of the
shares of Common Stock which it expects to issue under its 1990
Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan and its 1990 Employee Stock Purchase
Plan which were approved by Sun's stockholders today.  Sun intends to
repurchase shares under these systematic repurchase programs on a
regular basis during the terms of these two plans, and to reissue the
repurchased shares in connection with such plans.

Scott G. McNealy, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and
Chief Executive Officer, stated that "Sun has had a longstanding
practice of linking key employee compensation to corporate performance
because we believe that this increases employee motivation to improve
stockholder value.  We have, therefore, consistently included equity
incentives as a significant component of compensation for a broad range
of Sun employees.  Sun has adopted these systematic repurchase programs
in an effort to reduce the level of stockholder dilution caused by the
issuance of shares under employee stock benefit plans.

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

UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratory, Inc.

Contacts:  Kim Miller, PR  (415) 336-7583
	   Bob Otness, Finance (415) 336-7677

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