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          SUN AWARDS THIRD ROUND OF GRANTS TO COMMUNITY
       ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AND BOSTON AREAS
 
SunFLASH Vol 22 #1					        October 1990 
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   $264,500 in Awards Includes Sun's First International Grant
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --October 1, 1990-- Sun Microsystems today
announced that it has awarded $256,909 in new community development
grants to non-profit organizations in the San Francisco and Boston
areas, two regions in which Sun has major facilities. In addition, Sun
has made a grant of approximately $7,600 to a non-profit organization
in Scotland, where it recently opened a new manufacturing facility.

The grants   part of Sun's ongoing Corporate Contributions Program
will support programs in education, job training and development,
leadership development and business enterprise development. Sun issued
its first grants in April 1990. Today's awards bring Sun's total
contributions for the calendar year to nearly $646,000.

Sun has donated a total of $169,409 to organizations in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The recipients are: Opportunities Industrialization
Center West (Menlo Park, Calif.), Foothill-DeAnza Internship Training
Programs at NASA/Ames (Moffett Field, Calif.), American Leadership
Forum (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Marine Science Institute (Redwood
City, Calif.), LO*OP Center, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.), Center for
Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tri-City
Homeless Coalition (Fremont, Calif.), International Refugee Tutorial
Services (Fremont, Calif.) and Shoreline at Mountain View (Mountain
View, Calif.).

In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, a total of $87,500 was
awarded to: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell
(Lowell, Mass.), Greater Lawrence Educational Collaborative (Andover,
Mass.), Middlesex Community College "LEAP" Program (Bedford, Mass.),
and Haverhill Public Schools and Downtown Haverhill Partnership (both
of Haverhill, Mass.).

Sun awarded a grant of approximately $7,600 to the West Lothian
Industry/Education Partnership, a project of West Lothian Enterprise in
Bathgate, Scotland. The partnership is a three-year effort to involve
educators and businesses in developing school curriculums that are more
responsive to the needs of the Scottish economy.  Earlier this month,
Sun officially opened its third manufacturing and supply facility the
first outside the United States   in Linlithgow, West Lothian District,
Scotland.

"We're committed to extending our Corporate Contributions Program
overseas," said Mark Vermilion, Sun director of corporate affairs.
"About half of Sun's revenues come from outside the United States, and
it is our intent to give something back to our communities, wherever we
are located."

Sun's Corporate Contributions Program was launched in January 1990 to
support the economic improvement of emerging communities in the regions
in which Sun maintains its largest operations.  Organizations
interested in receiving grants submit proposals to Sun, which are
screened by a team of Sun employees that includes both management and
non-management staff. The program follows the principles and practices
for effective grant-making developed by the Council on Foundations, the
governing professional organization for corporate and foundation
philanthropy.

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(R)
operating system and productivity software.

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Corporate Affairs Contact:
Mark Vermilion (415) 336-7497

Press Contact:
Cindi Gentry (415) 336-0571
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