---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Dialog Selects Sun Products To Reengineer New Product Development SunFLASH Vol 55 #15 July 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55.15 Dialog Selects Sun Products To Reengineer New Product Development Dialog Information Services - a mainframe user with more that 2,000 Gb of data - is rightsizing to Sun. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Judy Hunter, Dialog Information Services at (415) 858-7025. DIALOG SELECTS SUN MICROSYSTEMS PRODUCTS TO REENGINEER NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT On-line Information Supplier Rightsizes Development to Solaris, Client-Server MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -July 12, 1993 - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Dialog Information Services, Inc., has purchased Sun SPARCstation and SPARCserve computers running the Solaris distributed computing environment as its new development platform. Dialog is the world's largest and most comprehensive online databank and information retrieval service. Dialog has one of the largest mainframe-based information storage facilities in the world, storing more than 2 terabytes of data on its mainframe today. Dialog chose Sun systems to rightsize its product development to a more scalable, flexible, distributed and open computing environment. By selecting Sun systems, Dialog will be able to speed development of new products that will offer its customers more flexible information search, retrieval and delivery in a client-server environment. In addition, Dialog has entered into a strategic relationship with SMCC and SunSoft to provide information content and services for managing information on the SPARC/Solaris platform. SPARC/Solaris users will be able to gain access to information based on Dialog's information services in the future. "We look forward to working closely with Sun as the leading UNIX" client-server supplier to migrate from our proprietary mainframe technology to a fully distributed computing environment," said Patrick Tierney, president and CEO of Dialog. "The SPARC/Solaris platform gives us the scalability, openness, price/performance and breadth of tools and applications that we require to develop innovative products for our customers throughout the enterprise." Dialog Information Services, Inc. is the acknowledged world leader in electronic information access and delivery. The DIALOG service contains more than 400 databases, primarily in the business, news, scientific and technical areas, used by over 150,000 customers in 100 countries. Dialog is also a major producer of scientific, technical, and business CD-ROM products. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) is the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions. It is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup USA 1994. SMCC has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. # # # Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, Sun, the Sun logo, the Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation logo, SunSoft, the SunSoft logo and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant Logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. SPARCserver and SPARCstation are licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. All other products are referred to herein by the trademarks as designated by the companies who market those products. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909 TRACE: To: sunflash@suntri Errors-to: owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com