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         A. MICHAEL SPENCE JOINS SUN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
   
SunFLASH Vol 22 #11					        October 1990 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --October 18, 1990-- Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
(SUNW) announced today that A. Michael Spence has been appointed to its
board of directors.  Spence is the dean of the Graduate School of
Business at Stanford University.

Prior to joining Stanford in July 1990, Spence served as dean of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, where he was chartered with
overseeing Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
and the Division of Continuing Education.

He served as professor of economics and business administration at
Harvard from 1977 to 1990, and served as chairman of the Economics
Department and George Gund Professor of Economics and Business
Administration from 1983 to 1984.  Spence was awarded the John Kenneth
Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching and the John Bates Clark
medal for a "significant contribution to economic thought and
knowledge" while at Stanford.

Spence also serves as a member of the board of Polaroid Corporation,
BankAmerica Corp. and Bank of America NT and SA.  In addition, he was a
member of the board of trustees of the Joint Council on Economic
Education and a member of the American Economic Association.

In addition to Spence, Sun's board of directors includes:

Scott G. McNealy 	chairman of the board, president and chief
			executive officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

L. John Doerr  		general partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

William Randolph 	editor and publisher, San Francisco
Hearst III 		Examiner

Robert L. Long 		senior vice president and director, corporate
                 	planning, Eastman Kodak Company

M. Kenneth Oshman 	president and chief executive officer, Echelon Systems
                    	Corporation

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.

Press contact: Kim Miller (415) 336-7583
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