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SUN DEDICATES NEW PALO ALTO CORPORATE FACILITY TO BOARD MEMBER

SunFLASH Vol 15 #2 					 March 1990 
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Funds Local Youth Community Services Program
  
 
PALO ALTO --March 2, 1990-- Sun Microsystems today dedicated its new
five-story, 255,000-square-foot corporate facility in Palo Alto to
venture capitalist Robert Sackman, one of the company's original board
members and a general partner of U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park.
The building, located on San Antonio Road near Highway 101, is the
first facility to be owned by Sun and was recently occupied by 750
employees, including President/CEO Scott McNealy and several other
corporate executives.  Sun purchased the building in June 1988 and
performed extensive remodeling.

"We dedicate this facility to Bob Sackman in appreciation of his eight
years of advice, encouragement and vision," stated McNealy.  "We're
deeply grateful for his participation in helping Sun become the leading
workstation manufacturer in such a short time."

Besides being an original board member, Sackman was one of Sun's first
venture capitalists.  A founder of U.S. Venture Partners, he has more
than 40 years of experience in research and development and in the
management of high-technology companies.  Besides sitting on the board
of directors of Sun, he is a director of several medical research
foundations.

An area of special interest to Sackman is science education in
secondary school.  To that end, he has funded and takes an active role
in a program for minority and other students at Brooklyn Technical High
School, of which he is an alumnus.  Sackman has been a founding member
of the Charles Armstrong Medical Research Foundation.  One of its
primary programs is the Charles Armstrong School in Belmont, a
nonprofit private coeducational day school serving children and adults
who have specific language disability.

McNealy announced that Sun has made a $20,000 donation in Sackman's
name to fund a year-long youth community service program, reflecting
Sackman's interest in helping youth.  It will train 50 students from
Ravenswood Middle School in East Palo Alto and Gunn and Palo Alto High
Schools and the Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School in Palo Alto, who
will spearhead a range of volunteer activities that will involve
hundreds of students from their respective schools.

Accepting the donation was Palo Alto Mayor Mike Cobb, accompanied by
Paul Thiltgen, director of the Social and Community Services Department
in Palo Alto and Dr. Charlie Mae Knight, superintendent of the
Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto.  The program is
modeled on a very successful effort in Los Angeles that has made
students more involved in their community and also more motivated in
school.

Besides the new Palo Alto facility in the Bay Area, Sun leases 1.1
million square feet of office space in Mountain View, Palo Alto and
Menlo Park and 1.3 million square feet of office and manufacturing
space in Milpitas and Fremont.

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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