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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
      Sun Gains Momentum In The Worldwide Education Market
   
SunFLASH Vol 28 #22					          April 1991 
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        Universities in Brazil, Japan, Poland and United
              Kingdom Move to Sun's SPARC Platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- April 29, 1991 --  Sun Microsystems announced
today that universities in Brazil, Japan, United Kingdom and Poland
recently purchased Sun workstations and servers to be used in a broad
range of applications, from research and instruction to
administration.  These recent wins underscore the rapid worldwide
growth of Sun systems in academia.  Sun has computers installed in more
than 1,100 academic institutions worldwide with more than half of these
institutions located outside the United States.

Sun Wins Bid Against Major U.S. Computer Vendors in Brazil

After an intense bidding war between major U.S. computer companies, Sun
was selected by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e
Tecnologico (CNPq) for the purchase of 526 desktop workstations to be
donated to universities throughout Brazil. CNPq is the national council
for technological development.  Among the factors that favored Sun was
its education software promotional program, ScholarPAC(TM), which
offers reduced pricing on Sun's unbundled software.

Since mainframes and PCs have been the primary computing platform for
most of the universities in Brazil, the decision to purchase SPARC(R)
/UNIX(R) workstations is a significant win for vendors who promote
non-proprietary computers.

Japanese Universities Select Sun Servers and Workstations

The University of Tokyo recently added two SPARCservers(TM) to its
installed base of more than 180 Sun SPARC systems.  The new servers are
being used by the laboratory of earthquake chemistry for research and
analysis of earthquake data gathered from 12 sites within a
300-kilometer radius of Tokyo.  Other departments at the university are
using Sun systems for mechanical engineering, scientific research and
instruction.

Other recent wins in Japan include the Shibaura Institute of Technology
and the University of Electro-Communication, both located in Tokyo,
which have purchased a total of 40 SPARCstations(TM) to be used in the
engineering and research departments.

Sun Wins Major Contracts in Poland

Sun was recently awarded a contract for the initial purchase of 50 Sun
SPARCstations and SPARCservers by the prestigious Polish Academy of
Sciences (Polska Academia Nauk) in Warsaw, Poland.

These systems will be used by three institutions. The Institute of
Technical Research will use them for theoretical and analytical
mechanics, fluid mechanics, theory of plasticity, foil mechanics,
behavior of new materials, and ultrasound applied in medical research
and robotics. The Institute of Systems Development will perform
research on management models, environmental models and computer
science. And, the Physics Institute will use them for researching solid
state physics, optics, electromagnetics, theoretical physics and
superconductivity.

Bradford University Centralizes Administrative Data Processing on Sun

Bradford University, United Kingdom, selected a Sun SPARCserver 490 to
run its central administrative data processing operations. The
administrative functions at the university incorporate five elements,
including student and staff records, physical resources and research
and consulting business management. The university plans to perform all
of these administrative functions on the SPARCserver, as well as use
the system for information management.

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