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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                   SMCC Ships 20-way SPARCcenter 2000

SunFLASH Vol 61 #20                                             January 1994
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61.20   SMCC Ships 20-way SPARCcenter 2000
        SPARCcenter 2000, which leads the industry in three
        industry-accepted
        performance areas (AIM multiuser, single system NFS server,
        database TPC-A)
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Contact: John Bard at (415) 336-3642


         Momentum Continues for Leading Multiprocessing Server

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- January 10, 1994 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) today announced that it has begun shipping 20-CPU
configurations of its popular SPARCcenter(TM)2000 server, the
industry's most powerful, expandable and affordable high-end UNIX(R)
server. Based on the SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) platform, the SPARCcenter 2000
is a mainframe-caliber system for data center applications. Introduced
in November 1992, the SPARCcenter 2000 server has been shipping in
volume since last March in configurations from two to eight processors.
There are now more than 1,000 SPARCcenter 2000 servers installed.

The SPARCcenter 2000 leads the industry in three industry-accepted
performance areas: the fastest multiuser system (20-CPU system: 4,002
jobs/minute; AIM III); the fastest single system file server (8-CPU
system: 2,575ops/sec); and the fastest UNIX RDBMS server (734.1 tpsA at
$5,346 per tpsA).

The SPARCcenter 2000 server is being used in a variety of
organizations, including World Cup USA 1994, where it will support a
vast network of nearly 1,000 Sun(R) workstations and 15 servers
distributed across nine cities. It will handle mission-critical event
management functions developed by EDS, including accreditation,
results, security, logistics and media database systems. In addition,
FingerHut Corporation, one of the nation's largest catalog-marketing
companies is using the SPARCcenter 2000 and hundreds of Sun
workstations and other Sun servers to handle phone orders from
customers as well as on-line customer service. In fact, FingerHut is
running the second largest Oracle database in the world on a 16-CPU
SPARCcenter 2000 system. Other SPARCcenter 2000 customers include
Fannie Mae and AT&T Universal.

"We've been really excited about our customers' enthusiasm for the
SPARCcenter 2000," said Curt Wozniak, vice president of marketing at
SMCC. "The SPARCcenter 2000, in conjunction with our incredibly popular
SPARCserver 1000, are key to helping us deliver enterprise computing to
commercial organizations worldwide."

The SPARCcenter 2000 server offers leading price/performance as well.
An entry-level configuration, with two 50-MHz CPUs, 128 MB of main
memory and 8 GB of disk storage, lists for $126,000. A fully-configured
server with 20 50-MHz CPUs, 5 GB of main memory and 100 GB of disk
storage has a list price under $1.2 million. All configurations are
shipping today.

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's leading
supplier of open client-server computing solutions, is an operating
company of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun is the exclusive computer
supplier to World Cup Soccer 1994. SMCC has its headquarters in
Mountain View, Calif.

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Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation 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. SPARCcenter is
licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC
trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems,
Inc. All other products are referred to herein by the trademarks as
designated by the companies who market those products.

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