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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
               SUN REPORTS WINS IN EASTERN EUROPE

SunFLASH Vol 28 #1					          April 1991 
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       Major Contracts in Poland; New Sun Resellers Added


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 8, l991-- Sun Microsystems has been
awarded a contract for the initial purchase of 50 Sun SPARCstation(TM)
and SPARCserver(TM) products by the prestigious Polish Academy of
Sciences (Polska Academia Nauk) in Warsaw, Poland.

This was an initial order for Sun's complete line of SPARC(R) systems
that will be used by the following organizations:

1.  Institute of Technical Research will be using the Sun systems for
theoretical and analytical mechanics, fluid mechanics, theory of
plasticity, foil mechanics, behavior of new materials, and ultrasound
applied in medical research and robotics.  This institute is engaged in
the design of sensors and software for visualizing and controlling the
condition of complex systems in stress forecasting.  This method of
stress forecasting and analysis will be used by major airline
manufacturers for the early identification of material wear and
fatigue.

2.  Institute of Systems Development is engaged in research on
management models, environmental models and computer science.  It is
collaborating with the International Institute for Applied System
Analysis in Austria, which is researching issues dealing with the
environment, such as acid rain.

3.  The Physics Institute is researching solid state physics, optics,
electromagnetics, theoretical physics and superconductivity.  It is
involved in various collaborative projects with the University of
Rochester in New York and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Winning the contract for the Polish Academy of Sciences was COMP, one
of Sun's authorized resellers in Poland.  COMP was the first Polish
company to be granted a license for the import of SPARC systems.


Other New Sun Partners

Sun is also represented in Czechoslovakia by one of its major
distributors in Europe, ICL, and in Hungary by MTAZTAKI and ICON in
Budapest.  Sales have taken place in the academic and government
sectors.


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