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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

             MENTOR GRAPHICS MIGRATES TO SOLARIS 2.0

SunFLASH Vol 42 #7					           June 1992 
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ANAHEIM, Calif. --June 8, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.
(SMCC), SunSoft Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that
Mentor Graphics is migrating its industry-leading electronic design
automation software to the Solaris(R) 2.0 operating environment.
Mentor Graphics is porting its Sun-based products to SunSoft's new
operating environment and expects to complete most of this effort in
1993.  The announcement was made here at the Design Automation
Conference (DAC).

The Solaris 2.0 environment, which includes the SunOS(TM) 5.0 operating
system, is based on UNIX(R) System V Release 4 (SVR4), with support for
symmetric multiprocessing and multithreading.  The Solaris environment
has been designed to meet the needs of end users, software developers
and system administrators in distributed computing environments.

For end users, Solaris 2.0 offers the intuitive OPEN LOOK(R) graphical
user interface with the DeskSet(TM) multimedia workgroup productivity
applications, making the network easily accessible from desktop
systems.  For software developers, Solaris 2.0 features the
OpenWindows(TM) application development environment, with the
object-oriented ToolTalk(TM) application interoperability product, to
easily create next-generation distributed applications. Lastly, for
system administrators, Solaris includes ONC(TM), the industry's most
widely used heterogeneous networking solution, with more than three
million nodes installed.

"Our customers look to our partnership with Sun to provide them with a
continuously improving EDA design environment," said Farrokh Irani,
platform marketing manager for development on Sun systems at Mentor
Graphics.  "The multithreaded libraries and other features of Solaris
2.0 will result in very robust EDA applications. Further, the
combination of Solaris 2.0 and SMCC's multiprocessor systems on the
desktop and at the server level will result in enhanced performance of
our application software."  Sun systems are based on the
industry-leading SPARC(R) RISC architecture.  SPARC systems make up
63.1 percent of RISC shipments in 1991, according to International Data
Corp.

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) of Wilsonville, Oregon, was
established in 1981 to design, manufacture, market and service
electronic design automation (EDA) systems.  The company is the leader
in worldwide EDA sales, with revenues of $396,534,000 over the last
reported 12 months.  The company currently employs approximately 2,400
people.  In addition to its corporate offices in Wilsonville, Mentor
Graphics has sales and support offices in 63 locations worldwide.  The
company's headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777.

PR contacts:

Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.
Cathleen Beall Garfield (415) 336-6536

Mentor Graphics, Corp.
Abbie Kendall (503) 685-1398

SunSoft, Inc.
Laura Ramsey (415) 336-0739 


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