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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
   Sun Establishes Subsidiaries In Finland, Belgium And Brazil
   
SunFLASH Vol 28 #12					          April 1991 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 17, 1991-- Sun Microsystems has
established three new subsidiaries in Finland, Belgium and Brazil that
will allow the company to provide sales, service and marketing support
directly to its customers.  With these additions, Sun now has a total
of 10 subsidiaries in Europe and its first wholly-owned subsidiary in
Latin America.

The new Brazilian subsidiary underscores the rapid increase in sales of
Sun's UNIX(R)-based workstations outside of Europe and the United
States.  With Europe contributing approximately 30 percent to Sun's
overall revenues, adding subsidiaries in Belgium and Finland further
supports Sun's growth in this important region.

The new Belgian subsidiary, located in Brussels, will commence
operations on July 1.  BIM s.a./n.v., Sun's partner in that region,
will continue operations as Sun's main distribution channel to
education, government and large industrial accounts.  Sun Microsystems
Belgium will be headed by Lieven Jaspaert, who comes to Sun from BIM,
where he was vice president of sales.

Hannu Alen has been named country manager of Sun Microsystems Oy in
Espoo, Finland.  The new subsidiary will focus not only on promoting
Sun's products in its traditional markets, such as CASE and CAD/CAM,
but will also target markets in the commercial sector, including
financial services and publishing.  Full operations commenced on
January 1, 1991.

The formation of Sun Microsystems do Brasil Industria e Comercio Ltda
will extend local support for Sun's large Brazilian installed base.  In
addition, the local staff will work with Sun's distributor and partner,
Scopus Tecnologia S/A, to extend penetration of Sun products into
vertical markets, such as mapping, finance, office automation, software
engineering and telecommunications.  Sun is the leading supplier of
UNIX-based workstations in this region.  Luciano N. Dolenc has been
named director and general manager of the new subsidiary, which is
located in Sao Paolo.


Press Contact:  Susanne Klopka (415) 336-0529

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