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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
   
        SUN AND COMPUTER CONSOLES INC. SIGN OEM AGREEMENT

SunFLASH Vol 32 #10					         August 1991 
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SPARC Systems Selected as Foundation for Advanced Telecommunications Products


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --August 26, 1991-- Sun Microsystems and Computer
Consoles, Inc. (CCI) have signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar
agreement under which CCI will integrate and resell Sun(TM) SPARC(R)
computers as a platform for its telecommunications applications.  The
powerful Sun systems will enable CCI to offer greater flexibility to
its operator and network services customers worldwide.

Sun systems will support CCI's integration of database, call processing
and audio subsystems for applications such as directory assistance,
toll, intercept and a variety of new voice processing services.  The
agreement enhances CCI's movement from proprietary to industry-standard
platforms, and expands and reinforces Sun's presence in the
telecommunications marketplace.  Both companies emphasized that the
agreement underscores a market shift towards open systems
architecture.

"We see Sun as a strong business partner and the SPARC/UNIX(R) platform
as the right strategic choice to meet our customers' long-term needs,"
said David Jankowski, CCI's manager of platform products. "The Sun
platform rounds out our product line, supporting creation and
implementation of sophisticated telecommunications solutions without
locking customers into proprietary technology."

CCI believes that the Sun platform will meet both current and future
needs of the telephone companies that it serves.  Many operator and
network services tasks -- such as directory assistance, toll and assist
(person-to-person or third-party billing calls) and intercept (calls to
changed or disconnected numbers) -- have been enhanced or automated
with interactive voice processing systems.  Future applications will
let callers access a wide range of information databases as well as
conduct voice, data and image transactions through automated
attendants, direct access and operators performing multiple tasks from
a single workstation.

"CCI is a leader in the telecommunications industry," said Bruce
Golden, director of commercial market development at Sun. "Their
selection of the Sun platform clearly demonstrates how Sun's products
are shaping telecommunications technology, particularly the
consolidation of operator services onto the desktop."

Sun Microsystems is the world's leading supplier of client/server
computing solutions, which feature networked workstations and servers
that store, process and distribute information.  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 and
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a multibillion dollar
corporation doing business worldwide.

CCI founded in 1968 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, supplies
high-quality integrated database, voice processing, call processing and
workstation systems to the telecommunications industry.  CCI is part of
Northern Telecom.

SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. Products
bearing the SPARC trademark are based on an architecture developed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Sun is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.


PR contacts: 	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
		Whitney Greer (415) 336-0598

		Computer Consoles, Inc.
		David Jankowski (716) 482-5000 

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