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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                 SunSoft Launches SunSoft Press

SunFLASH Vol 44 #23					         August 1992 
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    Announces Partnerships with Ziff-Davis and Prentice Hall


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- August 19, 1992 -- SunSoft, Inc., today
launched SunSoft Press, a publishing group to develop, market, and
distribute books on the Solaris software environment and associated Sun
products to mainstream users. The company also announced strategic
partnerships with Ziff-Davis Press, a leader in commercial and retail
book publishing, and the Professional Technical Reference (PTR)
division of Prentice Hall, a leader in professional and technical book
publishing, to deliver Solaris expertise through their worldwide
network of retail and technical bookstores.

SunSoft Press will work with Ziff-Davis Press and PTR Prentice Hall to
develop books targeted at end users, software developers and system
administrators. The books, ranging from porting guides to quick
reference books and retail product manuals, will be available through
national bookstores including B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Crown Books,
Software Etc., Stacey's and Walden Books.

The first books from SunSoft Press will focus on Solaris 2.0, the
company's 32-bit distributed computing solution, and its key
technologies. These include porting guides for Solaris on the SPARC and
80386/486 platforms, quick reference and implementation guides for
system administration, and in-depth books on the Solaris user
environment and the DeskSet tools.  Future books will cover Solaris
multiprocessing and multithreading technologies, compilers and tools,
graphics and SunSoft's Project DOE (Distributed Objects Everywhere)
initiative.

"With SunSoft Press, we continue to expand Solaris into the commercial
marketplace" said Karin Ellison, publisher of SunSoft Press.  "Users
now have easy access to practical information on distributed computing,
enabling us to bring Solaris expertise to a wide range of commercial
and technical customers."

The first books from SunSoft Press will begin to appear in the fall.
Titles include: "Solaris System Administrator's Guide", "Solaris
Porting Guide", "Solaris x86 Porting Guide", "All About NIS+: A Guide
for Network Administrators", "The ToolTalk Service:  An
Interoperability Solution" and "The Solaris International Developer's
Guide". The books will be available through Ziff-Davis and Prentice
Hall's retail market channels and SunExpress, the distribution
subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Titles will also be published in
European and Asian languages.

Ziff-Davis Press is the book publishing division of Ziff Communications
Company. Other Ziff Communications divisions include Interop, Seybold,
The Cobb Group, Logical Operations, Ziff Technologies, Computer
Intelligence, and Ziff-Davis Publishing division, which publishes PC
Magazine, PC Week, PC/Computing, Computer Shopper, MacUser, MacWeek and
Corporate Computing.

The Professional Technical Reference division of Prentice Hall is a
division of Simon and Schuster Education Group and is the premier
source of UNIX system books and documentation. PTR Prentice Hall is the
professional's choice in professional technical reference publishing.
Simon & Schuster, the world's largest book publisher, is the
information and publishing unit of Paramount Communications, Inc.

SunSoft, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary
of Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company has offices in North America,
Europe and Asia. SunSoft is the leading supplier of 32-bit system
software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers.
SunSoft's products are targeted at software developers, system
administrators and end users. The products are licensed by SunSoft and
distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers
worldwide.
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Laura Ramsey 	SunSoft, Inc.  		415-336-0739
Claudia Carasso Hi-Tech Communications  415-904-7000

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