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  SUN MICROSYSTEMS NAMED WORKSTATION VENDOR OF CHOICE BY PRATT & WHITNEY 

SunFLASH Vol 18 #12					 	June 1990 
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Three-Year Pact Could Yield Millions in SPARC System Sales
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --June 5, 1990-- United Technologies
Corporation's Pratt & Whitney division has selected Sun Microsystems'
SPARC(TM)-based computers as the platform of choice for all of the
aerospace giant's workstation and server needs.

Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Sun will supply hundreds
of UNIX(R) workstations and servers, along with a complete range of
peripherals for use by Pratt & Whitney's design, drafting, analytical
and manufacturing functions.  It is expected that the agreement could
result in millions of dollars for Sun.

"One of the reasons Sun was chosen was that its SPARC architecture
could satisfy our requirements across the spectrum of medium- and
high-end workstations," said Dominick Lombari, Pratt & Whitney's
manager of CAD/CAM/CAE applications.  "This will provide a common
platform to serve the multiple disciplines within Pratt & Whitney's jet
engine businesses."

A key selection requirement was the workstations' ability to run
Unigraphics software from McDonnell Douglas.  Last November, it was
announced that Unigraphics was chosen by Pratt & Whitney as the firm's
preferred CAD/CAM system software.

Pratt & Whitney had identified standards as a key ingredient for
implementing and maintaining a cost-effective and stable computing
environment.  Sun is a leading proponent of open standards, such as
UNIX System V.4, PHIGS and TCP/IP.

Sun will supply SPARC-based workstations to perform engineering tasks
of varying complexity.  These range from medium-performance
workstations for 2-D drafting and process planning to high-performance
systems for 3-D solids modeling, heat transfer and fluid analysis.

The Sun workstations will be used in both commercial and military jet
engine design and production at all Pratt & Whitney plants in the
Northeast and South.  The systems are being configured in networks at
each of these sites, which will be linked via a wide area network.  The
workstations and servers will share information with existing IBM
mainframe and DEC VAX systems.

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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trademark of AT&T.  All other products or services mentioned in this
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