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		HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS STANDARDIZE 
		    ON SUN SOLUTION FOR PC NETWORKING 

SunFLASH Vol 14 #15 					 February 1990 
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PC-NFS to Be Used by Academic Institutions Throughout the United Kingdom
 
CAMBERLEY, Surrey --February 13, 1990-- Sun Microsystems and the
Combined Higher Education Software Team (CHEST) today announced the
signing of a licensing agreement that designates Sun's Network File
System (NFS(R)) for personal computers, called PC-NFS(R), as the
standard PC networking solution for higher education institutions.  As
a result, approximately 100,000 PCs are expected to use PC-NFS at 80 to
100 campuses throughout the United Kingdom.

The agreement calls for a volume PC-NFS site license that gives every
university, college, vocational school and research council in the UK
access to PC-NFS.  Thirty-two institutions have already announced their
intention to use PC-NFS, and as part of the program, will purchase
support services from Sun for a period of five years.

CHEST, the organization responsible for negotiating software licenses
on behalf of British higher education institutions, was asked by the
Inter-University Networking Committee (IUNC) to establish the agreement
with Sun.  The IUNC selected PC-NFS after evaluating several PC
networking solutions.

Annette Haworth, chairman of the IUNC in the UK, stated, "PC-NFS gives
a terrific boost to integrated distributed computing at both the
departmental and campus-wide level, with users able to access and share
large and centrally managed files.  Having a campus license makes it
much easier to administer the network and helps us coordinate all of
our computing resources."

PC-NFS is the DOS implementation of Sun's Network File System, the
industry standard for transparent file access among different hardware
architectures and operating systems.  Since NFS is not limited to a
particular vendor or operating system,  PC-NFS is an ideal connectivity
solution for campuses that wish to link PCs to hardware based on
UNIX(R), VMS, VM, MVS or other major operating systems.

"Like many institutions today, colleges are rarely single-vendor
environments," said Dave Fowler, Sun's director of PC distributed
systems.  "Yet, with the exception of PC-NFS, PC LAN solutions provide
limited support for connecting to workstations, minicomputers and
mainframes.  Sun's open systems strategy is ideal for mixed vendor
networks like those in universities and our agreement with CHEST
further validates this approach."

Campuses that participate in the PC-NFS license program will receive a
free training course specifically developed as part of this agreement.
In addition to the basic PC-NFS software, campuses have the option to
purchase PC-NFS LifeLine, Sun's electronic mail and network backup
package for PCs.

A PC-NFS Programmer's Toolkit, which lets users develop and execute
their own distributed applications, is also available.  The toolkit
supports Sun's Open Network Computing (ONC(TM)) platform, including the
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol, which forms the basis of the
common platform for distributed applications unveiled last year by Sun,
Novell and Netwise.  Several of the campuses already committed to
PC-NFS have expressed interest in developing such applications.

CHEST, located at the University of Bath and at Leicester Polytechnic,
was formed nearly two years ago to obtain quality commercial software
on behalf of education establishments.  CHEST works with other higher
education computer committees to establish the most favorable price and
licensing terms for educational institutions.  CHEST's most notable
successes have included negotiations for PC-NFS, presentation graphics,
databases, statistical and numerical libraries, along with various
PC-based packages.

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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