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   SUN MICROSYSTEMS OPENS INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NETWORK COMPUTING
   
SunFLASH Vol 21 #9					      September 1990 
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GRENOBLE, France --September 11, l990-- Sun Microsystems announced
today at a press briefing that it has opened its International Center
for Network Computing in Grenoble.  The R&D center, under the direction
of Jean Pierre Baudouin, will design innovative networking and
communications products that will be part of Sun's networking product
family, SunNet(TM).  The center will focus on development work in areas
such as high-performance OSI products, OSI network management
facilities and programmer aids for international network computing.
Products developed at the center will be designed for Sun's worldwide
markets.

"As one of the first companies to support open systems, Sun is fully
committed to OSI standards," said Dr. Eric Schmidt, vice president of
Sun's General Systems Group.  "The decision to locate Sun's first
European R&D facility in France was in part based upon the strong OSI
networking talent located here."  The center will be part of the
distributed computing organization under the leadership of Jonathan
Feiber, vice president of networking.

Sun is a multi-national company with 49 percent of its revenues derived
from the international marketplace.  Because of this strong
international presence, Sun is continuing to invest in manufacturing
and R&D centers around the world.  In addition to the networking center
in France, Sun also has an R&D center in Montreal, Canada, that
specializes in telecommunications software and a development center in
Japan.  Sun also has established a manufacturing facility in
Linlithgow, Scotland.

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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