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	SUN WORKSTATIONS CHOSEN BY PARIS-BASED BROKERAGE HOUSE

SunFLASH Vol 12 #5					 December 1989 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--December 12, 1989-- The Tuffier Group, a
Paris-based brokerage house, has selected Sun386i(TM) workstations for
its new trading floor, which specializes in the interest rate
instruments market.  Effix Systems, a French systems integrator,
equipped Tuffier's trading room with 60 Sun386i workstations and four
Sun-3/280(TM) servers running advanced decision support software
developed by Effix.  An additional 40 workstations will most probably
be added to the network in 1990, Tuffier reported.

The new workstations allow a trader to consolidate digital financial
information from three external data suppliers -- Reuters, Telerate and
Fininfo  -- on a single display.  Using Effix software, traders can
perform real-time analyses and calculations on this data and
incorporate it into spreadsheets or display it in high-resolution
charts and graphs.  In addition, traders can be alerted to previously
specified key words or phrases that appear in news feeds through a
unique facility within the software.

The Sun workstations replace video-based systems that displayed
information in conventional video (read only) format on several
different screens.  The previous system did not allow traders to
perform sophisticated decision-making analyses.

Each Sun386i Model 150 is equipped with four megabytes of memory and
uses the SunView(TM) window system.  Sun's windowing environment allows
traders to simultaneously access information from multiple sources and
to display relevant data in color charts and graphs.  The Sun systems
demonstrate the model of computing for the 90s -- workgroup computing,
based on "clients" that consist of powerful desktop systems connected
to servers that store and manipulate information.

According to M. Letouzey, data processing manager for Tuffier, the
primary reasons for choosing the Sun/Effix solution were the user-
friendly windowing capability, the optimal distribution of data over
the network and the ease with which new systems can be integrated into
the existing network.

Besides offering Tuffier superior performance/price, the Sun386i
solution uniquely met its need for an advanced workstation that could
run both UNIX(R) and MS DOS applications concurrently.  The Sun386i
systems are the first workstations to fully merge the power of the UNIX
operating system while giving access to the wealth of DOS software
available today.

The Tuffier group is one of the two largest brokerage houses in France
and is involved in French treasuries, money market instruments, Euro
instruments and futures and options.  Overall, the group represents 400
millions French francs in commissions and employs approximately 90
brokers.  Operations are conducted through three major subsidiaries :

TUFFIER-RAVIER-PY, Stock broker (Phone number: 33.1.40288586)

NICOL, money market broker (Phone number: 33.1.40268501)

PLUS X FUTUR, futures and options broker (Phone number: 33.1.40260086)


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
operating system and productivity software.

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UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.  All other products or services
mentioned in this document are identified by the trademarks or service
marks of their respective companies or organizations.

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