EDS TO BECOME COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR OF SUN WORKSTATIONS
 
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --Aug. 17, 1989-- Sun Microsystems today
announced that its master agreement with EDS has been expanded to
include systems integration of Sun workstations in the commercial
market.  Before now, EDS has been a user and reseller of Sun
workstations.  The expanded agreement enables EDS to include Sun
workstations -- particularly Sun's high-performance SPARC (TM) systems
-- and other products as part of computing solutions tailored for large
commercial users.  The multi-year agreement is expected to produce at
least $5 million annually in sales for Sun for products resold by EDS
into the commercial market.

EDS (Electronic Data Systems Corp.), the leader in the rapidly growing
systems integration area, is a long-time reseller of Sun hardware used
in engineering and manufacturing applications.  In addition, the strong
relationship between the two companies has led to joint product
development projects.  For example, Sun and EDS worked together on a
version of Sun's standard Network File System (NFS (TM) ) networking
software for IBM mainframes that use the MVS operating system.

The agreement underscores the increasing demand for Sun systems in
applications outside the traditional scientific and technical areas.
To support this market expansion, Sun is turning to important systems
integrators like EDS.  "Our strategy is to work with companies like EDS
rather than integrate systems ourselves, since the customer is best
served this way," explained Ed Zander, vice president of corporate
marketing at Sun.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX(R)
operating system and productivity software.


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