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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
        J. Phillip Samper Appointed to Board of Directors
   
SunFLASH Vol 28 #21					          April 1991 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 29, 1991-- Sun Microsystems, Inc., (SUNW)
announced today that J. Phillip Samper has been appointed to its board
of directors.  Samper is a former vice chairman and executive officer
of Eastman Kodak Company and served as president and chief executive
officer of Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc.  He is presently a
private investor.

Samper's experience as a senior operations executive at Eastman Kodak
and his international experience in Europe and Latin America will be
especially valuable for Sun as a global company deriving half its
revenue from outside the United States.

Samper joined Eastman Kodak in 1961 and subsequently held a series of
management posts in the company's international and marketing
divisions.  In 1983, he was named general manager of Eastman Kodak's
Photographic Division, elected an executive vice president and also
named to the company's board of directors.  With the formation of the
Office of the Chief Executive in 1986, Samper was named vice chairman
and executive officer.  He retired from Eastman Kodak in 1989.

Samper graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in
1960.  He received his graduate degree in international management from
the American School of International Management in 1961; he was awarded
the Sloan Fellowship and received a master of science degree in
management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.

Samper also serves on the board of directors for Armstrong World
Industries and the Interpublic Group.  In addition, he is a member of
the University of California at Berkeley School Advisory Board.

In addition to Samper, Sun's board of directors includes:

	Scott G. McNealy  - chairman of the board, president and chief
	executive officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

	L. John Doerr  - general partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

	William Randolph Hearst III  - editor and publisher, San Francisco
	Examiner

	Robert L. Long  - senior vice president and director, corporate
	planning, Eastman Kodak Company

	M. Kenneth Oshman  - president and chief executive officer, Echelon
	Systems Corporation

	A. Michael Spence  - dean, Stanford University, Graduate School of
	Business

Sun Microsystems is the world's leading supplier of client/server
computing solutions.  Used for many demanding commercial and technical
applications, Sun's products command the largest share of the computer
industry's fastest-growing market segment: workstations and servers.
The company, founded in 1982, is a multi-billion dollar corporation doing
business worldwide.

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