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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

   Sun Selects Oracle Applications To Manage Worldwide Operations

SunFLASH Vol 42 #2					           June 1992 
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The following announcement was made Monday, May 25th by Oracle.  While
this announcement is a significant win for Oracle, it also emphasizes
how Sun is moving towards running its business solely on its own
technology and increasing market availability of client-server
configurations to replace mainframe solutions.

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  SUN SELECTS ORACLE APPLICATIONS TO MANAGE WORLDWIDE OPERATIONS

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 25, 1992 -- Oracle Corporation today
announced that Sun Microsystems, Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., has
selected Oracle's manufacturing and financial applications for the
worldwide automation of its manufacturing facilities.  The
multi-million dollar agreement also includes Oracle's computer-aided
systems engineering (CASE) products.

Oracle Manufacturing will be installed in Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation's (SMCC) manufacturing plants worldwide.  Oracle Financials
will be installed throughout Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s (SMI)
subsidiaries, including sites in Europe, Asia and North America.
Deployed on a client-server network of Sun SPARCservers and
SPARCstations, this project will replace applications now consuming one
mainframe computer at Sun.

"Sun is currently a three billion dollar plus world-wide operation and
it is our goal to run our business solely on our own technology," said
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  "The Sun/Oracle
combination of client-server systems and powerful applications make a
compelling cost-effective alternative to mainframe-based solutions."

"Sun's business is a model for how companies should be using
technology," said Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle president and CEO.
"Sun's continued migration of its core business operations to
distributed client-server computing is a leading indicator of where
information processing is heading.  We are tremendously gratified that
Oracle Applications based on ORACLE Version 7 were selected as
instruments of this change."

Sun Selects Oracle Applications to Manage Worldwide Operations

The Sun/Oracle implementation will deliver the first-ever distributed
solution to address multi-plant, multi-country, and multi-lingual
requirements.  It involves an inter-continental network of Sun
locations utilitizing multi-processing Sun SPARCservers.  Oracle's CASE
products and methodology will be used to model Sun's requirements, and
to implement the customized applications consistently throughout the
world.

Oracle's manufacturing and financial applications are the only
applications designed to fully exploit relational technology and
fourth-generation language tools.  This gives the applications
unsurpassed flexibility in customizing the products for any business'
operations.  The distributed implementation allows the applications to
fully utilize the power of Sun multi-processing servers and
workstations in a networked client-server architecture.

SMCC will be implementing Oracle's manufacturing applications including
Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Master Scheduling, Oracle Capacity, Oracle
Inventory, Oracle Work in Process, Oracle MRP, Oracle Bill of Materials
and Oracle Engineering.  The financial applications to be implemented
throughout SMI include Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Payables, Oracle
Order Entry, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Assets, Oracle Revenue
Accounting and Oracle Sales Analysis.  Additionally, Sun will implement
Oracle Alert, Oracle Application Object Library and Oracle Personnel.
The initial implementation is scheduled to be completed next year.


For further information about Oracle, call Oracle world
headquarters at (415) 506-7000.

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