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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

        Sun and ILX Announce Partnership for Financial Services

SunFLASH Vol 66 #53					           June 1994
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            The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Since 1988
         John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor - flash@sun.com
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66.53 	Sun and ILX Announce Partnership for Financial Services
	From: Sun Press Relations

	ILX Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
	(SMCC) announced that they have formed an alliance to provide
	market data solutions to retail brokerage firms nationwide.
	Under the terms of the agreement, ILX has ported its ILX
	Workstation market data software to Sun systems running the
	Solaris 2 operating environment and has become an authorized
	SMCC reseller. In addition, the two companies will
	cooperatively market ILX software on Sun systems to brokers,
	traders and asset managers throughout the financial services
	industry.

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     ILX AND SUN PARTNER TO PROVIDE MARKET DATA SOLUTIONS FOR

                     RETAIL BROKERAGE FIRMS

The agreement, which brings together one of the fastest-growing market
data companies with the number-one provider of UNIX systems to the
financial services industry, will make ILX Workstation available for
the first time to users of UNIX desktop computers.  Retail brokers will
now be able to run ILX software on multitasking Sun workstations, such
as the SPARCstation 5 system, which offers robust multimedia
capabilities and support for a wide range of industry-standard
applications.

"We can now offer our customers in the securities and banking
industries a very powerful solution that combines ILX functionality
with the performance, networking and flexibility of Sun systems," said
Bernard A. Weinstein, founder and chief executive officer, ILX Systems
Inc. "This is a very natural alliance as we have shared with Sun a
commitment to open systems from our very start."

ILX Workstation provides "one-stop shopping" for all financial
information requirements, supporting ticker and page-oriented financial
data from several sources. Services, features and functions may be
customized by the user. Implemented in "native mode" for the Solaris
environment, ILX Workstation will support industry-standard software
for office automation and decision support available for Sun systems,
including word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail and portfolio
management.

The recently introduced ILX Workstation Release 6.0 provides added
functionality, including advanced charting, powerful options analytics,
sophisticated news management features and enhanced navigation
capabilities. Other new features include ILX Anywhere for remote
dial-in capabilities. With ILX Anywhere, users can access ILX market
data systems from remote locations and customers sites through modem
connections on desktop and nomadic systems, such as the SPARCstation
Voyager "nomadic" computer. ILX Workstation for Sun systems is
available now.

SMCC is the number-one supplier of UNIX-based computers to the
financial services market. According to Computer Intelligence InfoCorp,
Sun systems lead the worldwide UNIX market in securities and
banking/credit industries with a 40.3 and 24.2 per cent respective
share of market value.

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(TM)," SMCC's SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) workstation and server family
leads the UNIX market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain
View, Calif.

ILX has more than doubled its revenues every year since its start in
1988. Based in New York City, ILX is a subsidiary of the Thomson
Corporation, a major publishing and financial company with annual
revenues of $6 billion.

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