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                              Sun Microsystems, Inc.
                              Austin Wing Mayer (415) 336-6255
                              Kim Miller        (415) 336-7583


               SUN ANNOUNCES FINANCING PLANS



     MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 4, 1989 - Sun Microsys-
tems, Inc.  (SUNW), announced today that it has filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration State-
ment of a proposed offering by the Company of $125 million
principal amount of convertible subordinated debentures. The
Company plans to use the net proceeds of the offering for
general corporate purposes, investments in
property, plant and equipment, and as working capital to
finance accounts receivable and inventories.  The deben-
tures, made available only by means of a prospectus, will be
offered by Goldman, Sachs & Co.

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

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     A registration statement relating to these securities
is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
but has not yet become effective.  These securities may not
be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time
the registration statement becomes effective.  This communi-
cation shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solici-
tation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of
these securities in any State in which such offer, solicita-
tion or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such State.

     A written prospectus may be obtained from Goldman,
Sachs & Co., New York, New York.
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