---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Extends Catalyst Program To Education Developers SunFLASH Vol 28 #9 April 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SANTA CRUZ, Calif. --April 11, 1991-- Sun Microsystems today extended its highly successful commercial Catalyst(TM) Program to developers in the academic and research community. The new program offers more than 20 services, including discounted equipment, porting support and targeted marketing activities, to educational and non-profit research organizations that develop value-added products for the SPARC(R) platform. The announcement was made at the Sun Education and Research Conference here. Sun offers a range of UNIX(R) workstations, servers, networking solutions and system software products that are sold in more than 20 markets, for commercial and technical as well as scientific applications. The company has systems installed in more than 1,100 academic institutions worldwide. Sun's Catalyst Program for third-party vendors was launched in 1984 and has successfully provided commercial software and hardware vendors with technical, marketing and sales support that makes it easy for them to sell their products. Currently, more than 1,900 vendors participate in the Catalyst Program. Extending the program to the academic community will help these developers share their leading-edge technologies and research among themselves and within the commercial marketplace. By joining the program, members gain access to Sun's rapidly growing base of customers. Two unique features of the new program are the Publishers Alliance Network and the Commercial Network. These networks make available a list of publishers and commercial consultants who can assist education and research developers in getting their products published and/or sold commercially. "Ever since the first Sun hardware and software technologies were developed at universities, we've been closely linked to the academic community," said Van Jepson, director of worldwide education and research marketing at Sun. "This program allows us to extend our partnership even further to meet the challenge of education and research in the 1990s." PR contact Lauren Swingle (415) 336-7273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.