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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

            J. Phillip Samper Chosen as SMCC's New President

SunFLASH Vol 62 #22					       February 1994
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62.22	J. Phillip Samper Chosen as SMCC's New President
	former vice chairman of Eastman Kodak
	member of the Sun board of directors
	now president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC)
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	    J. PHILLIP SAMPER NAMED PRESIDENT OF
 	   SUN MICROSYSTEMS COMPUTER CORPORATION 


MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- February 17, 1994 -- Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced that J. Phillip Samper, former vice chairman of
Eastman Kodak and a member of the Sun board of directors, has been
appointed president of Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC).
SMCC is the world's top supplier of open network computing solutions
and Sun's largest operating company with revenues exceeding $4
billion.

Samper, 59, was appointed to the board in April of 1991. In his new
role he will report to chairman and chief executive officer Scott
McNealy. As a result of his appointment and in accordance with Sun's
policy of having only one inside director, Samper will step down from
his position on the board of directors. In his 28 years with Kodak,
Samper held a variety of management positions including vice chairman
and executive officer and general manager of the company's Photographic
and Information Management Division. He also managed Kodak operations
worldwide.

"Phil brings years of outstanding management, marketing and
international experience to SMCC," said McNealy. "His knowledge of Sun
and our markets combined with his proven leadership skills will enable
him to make a positive contribution immediately. We are particularly
pleased to have someone of Phil's stature join our executive management
team."

Samper graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960.
He received his graduate degree in international management from the
American School of International Management in 1961; he was awarded the
Sloan Fellowship and received a master of science degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.

"These are exciting and changing times for the computer industry and
Sun is one of the companies driving those changes," said Samper. "I
have great confidence in Sun's future, and am looking forward to
working with an outstanding group of people. Sun constantly sets the
pace for the industry and drives new technologies, innovations and
solutions to the market."

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's top supplier
of open network computing solutions, is an operating company of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the
Computer," SMCC's SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) workstation and server family
leads the UNIX market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain
View, Calif.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., is an integrated portfolio of businesses that
supply distributed computing technologies, products and services. Its
innovative open client-server computing solutions include networked
workstations and multiprocessing servers, operating system software,
silicon designs and other value-added technologies.  Founded in 1982,
Sun is a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Mountain View,
California.

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