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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

	  MITSUBISHI BANK EXTENDS TRADING ROOM TO BANK BRANCHES
		    Using Sun Workstations and Servers

SunFLASH Vol 43 #18					           July 1992 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- July 28, 1992 --  Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) and Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K. announced today that
Mitsubishi Bank of Japan has designed and installed the first trading
system in Japan that links online with a bank branch system for
real-time exchange of data between all 300 bank branches and the
dealing room. The system includes 100 new Solaris-based
SPARCstation(TM)2s and two SPARCserver(TM)490s, a relational database
from Sybase and Japanese OpenWindows(TM).

This revolutionary new system demonstrates a growing trend in the
banking arena in which the role of the bank branch is redefined by
extending the functionality of the dealing room to the branch
personnel.

Mitsubishi Bank's Foreign Exchange and International Treasury Division
uses the system to handle a series of complex transactions, including
spot, forward, futures, swap exchanges and others.  The system compiles
transaction information and maintains positions in real time, providing
efficient and highly reliable support for the entire operation,
including approximately 100 dealers and 300 branches.

The two SPARCserver 490s are used as high-availability systems.  They
perform concurrent processing of real-time position keeping and risk
management, using a dual back-up design.  If the main system has a
failure, control is switched automatically to the subsystem, which
prevents a system shutdown by mirroring data on multiple disks, served
by both primary and back-up servers.

In addition, the Mitsubishi system utilizes Sun network management
software, SunNet(TM) Manager, which permits the entire enterprise
network to be monitored from the workstations.  In 1989, Mitsubishi
Bank's dealing room was the first in the Japanese banking industry to
include a workstation-supported large-scale dealing system, with more
than 300 SPARCstation 1s installed.

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Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.  Lauren Swingle        (415) 336-7273
Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K.  	 Kazuyoshi Manabe (011-81-3) 3221-7228