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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

         Chet Silvestri To Drive SPARC Technology Sales

SunFLASH Vol 44 #19					         August 1992 
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        Will Head New Group to Capture SPARC Design Wins

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- August 13, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Chester J. Silvestri has joined
the company as vice president, technology sales.  In his newly created
position, Silvestri will manage a new group devoted to securing
technology design wins across a variety of industries, markets and
geographies for SPARC(R), the leading RISC CPU architecture developed
and championed by Sun.  Silvestri, who will report to Joseph Roebuck,
SMCC's vice president of worldwide field operations, comes to the
company from Silicon Graphics, Inc., where he was most recently vice
president and general manager of the Technology Products Group.
Silvestri became part of Silicon Graphics when it acquired MIPS
Computer Systems this year.

During his six years with MIPS, Silvestri was first the vice president
of marketing and later managed marketing, licensing, partner support
and sales of the company's technology products. Prior to joining MIPS,
Silvestri was the vice president of marketing for Megatest Corporation,
where he managed all the marketing efforts for the company's line of
semiconductor test equipment.

Silvestri holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering from Michigan State University and an MBA from Harvard.

"We're very serious about our efforts to secure SPARC design wins in
areas such as chips, boards and systems," said Roebuck. "With Chet
managing this effort, we fully expect to ramp up the operation and
close significant deals in short order."

According to market research organization International Data
Corporation, SPARC systems represent two-thirds of all RISC
workstations and servers in use today.  Currently, there are more than
4,320 third-party solutions available for Sun SPARC systems.
SPARC-based products are available from more than 40 system vendors and
10 microprocessor/chipset vendors.  In addition, there are 86 SPARC
chip implementations available today.

PR Questions: Carol Sacks (415) 336-0521

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