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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
       SPARCstation Receives Japanese Award For Excellence
   
SunFLASH Vol 26 #2					       February 1991 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  --February 4, 1991--  The best-selling
SPARCstation(TM) family of powerful RISC workstations from Sun
Microsystems has received the prestigious "Excellent Product Award"
from Nikkei, the leading industrial newspaper in Japan.  The award was 
accepted today in Tokyo by Dr. Amo, president of Nihon Sun Microsystems,
Sun's Japanese subsidiary.          

The Sun systems were among 36 winners selected from approximately
14,300 new products and services introduced into the Japanese
marketplace in l990.  Products from IBM, HP, DEC and Sony were also
considered for this award. The SPARCstation was the only non-Japanese
product chosen by the judging committee in the computer/telecommunications
category.

"We consider this a great honor, particularly considering the
importance Japan places on quality," noted Scott McNealy, president and
CEO of Sun.  Sun is the leading workstation vendor in Japan.

This is the second time Sun has won a Nikkei award.  The company's
Sun-4(TM) workstation received the award for creative excellence in
1987.  It was the first Sun system based on SPARC(R), a
high-performance RISC architecture at the heart of Sun's new
SPARCstation family, introduced in 1989 and 1990.  The family includes
the low-cost SPARCstation SLC, inexpensive color SPARCstation IPC and
the recently introduced SPARCstation 2, a graphics workstation.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX(R)
operating system and productivity software.

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SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. Products
bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  SPARCstation is a trademark of SPARC International,
Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems.  Sun-4 is a trademark
of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX
System Laboratories, Inc. Other products or services mentioned in this
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respective companies or organizations.

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