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UNISOL SHIPS JAPANIZED VERSIONS OF SUNWRITE, SUNPAINT AND SUNDRAW IN JAPAN

SunFLASH Vol 15 #6 					 March 1990 
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. --March 12, 1990-- Island Graphics Corporation and
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that Unisol Corporation of Tokyo
will begin shipping Japanized versions of SunWrite(TM), SunPaint(TM)
and SunDraw(TM) in Japan beginning April 1.  Unisol translated the
products into Japanese.

SunWrite, SunPaint and SunDraw utilize the easy-to-use OPEN LOOK(TM)
graphical user interface.  Unisol will license the products in Japan
through its distribution channels.  Unisol is owned jointly by Fuji
Xerox and Sun Microsystems.

Island Graphics originally created the office publishing products with
Sun Microsystems, and since their introduction in February 1989, they
have become the best-selling UNIX(R) office software on Sun
workstations.

"Japanese engineers and office professionals who have needed to do
desktop publishing have been forced to choose between limited PC-based
word processing and a few very expensive technical publishing
programs," said Michael Takahisa, director of the marketing and sales
department for Unisol.  "We're offering an affordable middle solution
-- we've brought Kanji and Kana characters to SunWrite, SunPaint and
SunDraw."

"We believe that the Japanized versions of SunWrite, SunPaint and
SunDraw will enjoy the same success that they had in their first year
in the English language," said Dan Remer, Island's president.

SunWrite is a WYSIWYG word processing and page layout program that
provides tools for creating memos, letters, newsletters and reports.
SunPaint is a raster graphics editor that lets users edit scanned
images, and create original paintings.  SunDraw is a vector graphics
editor that provides tools for creating diagrams and illustrations.
SunPaint and SunDraw share a common clipboard with SunWrite, letting
users cut and paste Sun rasters and EPS files between programs.

Pricing for the Japanized SunWrite, SunPaint and SunDraw will be
approximately the same as the English versions.  They run on the same
hardware as the English versions--the Sun-3(TM), Sun-4(TM), and the
SPARCstation(TM)--and they require Sun's Japanese Language Environment
(JLE) to support Japanese characters.

Island Graphics Corporation, headquartered in San Rafael, Calif., is
the leading developer of UNIX productivity and prepress software.

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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UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.  OPEN LOOK is a trademark of
AT&T.  SunWrite, SunPaint, SunDraw, Sun-3, Sun-4 and SPARCstation are
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Sun Microsystems is a registered
trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Press Contact:
Cathleen Beall Garfield 
(415) 336-6536

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