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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

          LEADING PROCESS CONTROL VENDORS CHOOSING SUN

SunFLASH Vol 42 #34					           June 1992 
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			SMCC Expects $100 Million
			   In Revenues By 1995

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- June 22, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corp. (SMCC) has been making rapid gains in the process control market,
with one example being the introduction by The Foxboro Company of new
Sun(TM) SPARC(R)-based industrial automation products. With the
addition of Foxboro, three of the top distributed control system (DCS)
vendors in the United States -- including Westinghouse and
Johnson-Yokogawa -- now use SMCC's SPARC systems as their sole or
primary platform.

SMCC expects to sell more than $100 million in hardware into the
process control market by 1995.  Besides the companies mentioned above,
other leading hardware and software vendors such as CEGELEC,
Micon-Powell, Willowglen and Valmet offer process control and related
products for the SPARC platform.

SMCC's momentum in process control furthers SPARC's reputation as an
optimal computing platform across the enterprise.  Sun SPARC systems
are moving rapidly from design departments onto the factory floor and
beyond.  This application breadth -- and the networking capabilities of
SPARC systems -- enables companies to link disparate departments
together and ultimately to produce higher-quality products and get them
to market faster.

Most recently, The Foxboro Company introduced two new products for its
I/A Series(R) automation system that are based exclusively on Sun SPARC
workstations.  The products are the Application Processor 50, an
integrated industrial process management and control system, and the
Workstation Processor 50, designed for process control applications
with advanced display requirements. Availability and pricing of the new
products are available through Foxboro sales offices.

In addition, Westinghouse Electric Corporation's WDPF II DCS product
and Johnson-Yokogawa's XL-Net product now use Sun SPARC workstations as
their sole or primary platform.  Other top DCS vendors who have moved
to the SPARC platform are CEGELEC (P3200 controller), Micon-Powell
(Micon A/S), Valmet (OASyS) and Willowglen (SCADACOM).  Companies
currently porting related products to the SPARC platform include
Hewlett-Packard, with its RTAP/Plus industrial automation software, and
Lynx Real-Time Systems, whose LynxOS(TM) operating system soon will run
SPARC applications in real time.

"DCS vendors are quickly moving to open systems and those who don't are
going to have a hard time competing," said Andy Chatha, president of
Automation Research Corporation.  "SMCC, with its SPARC hardware and
Solaris(R) distributed computing environment, will be a leading
supplier of open solutions to these vendors in the coming decade."


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