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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                  SUN MICROSYSTEMS FEDERAL ANNOUNCES
                 VOLUME DELIVERY OF SOLARIS CMW PRODUCT

SunFLASH Vol 47 #18					       November 1992 
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	Trusted, Distributed Secure Environment for Networked Computers


MILPITAS, Calif. -- Nov. 10, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.,
(Sun Federal) today announced that volume shipments of Solaris(R) CMW
1.0 (Compartmented Mode Workstation), Sun Federal's distributed, secure
UNIX(R) operating system, will begin on Dec. 17, 1992, through Sun
Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC). Solaris CMW is the
culmination of over four years' effort by Sun Federal's staff of
professional engineers to develop the only secure UNIX operating system
with a distributed, trusted computing base to be under evaluation by
the National Computer Security Center.

"As government users move from mainframes to client-server solutions,
our ability to offer a highly secure UNIX operating system for Sun
workstations and servers will continue to differentiate us from our
competitors," said John Marselle, acting president of Sun Federal. "Our
customers can now realize the cost savings in a networked client-server
environment without sacrificing the security of their information."

Solaris CMW is designed to meet all relevant security standards (NCSC
BI and DIA CMW requirements), as well as applicable industry standards
including the OPEN LOOK(R) Graphical User Interface, MaxSix(TM) and
SPARC(R) ABI. As a result, Solaris CMW has unparalleled commercial
off-the-shelf application availability.

Solaris CMW is based on the commercial Sun(TM) operating system with
security enhancements that already support an extensive list of COTS
applications, including DBMS products from Oracle, Sybase and
Informix.  Solaris CMW also includes the OpenWindows(TM) Deskset(TM)
applications and a new trusted multi-level secure postmaster for
processing classified electronic mail.

Solaris CMW was introduced in October 1991, and has been available to
government programs and systems integrators from Sun Federal since
March 1992.

Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun
Microsystems, Inc., the world's leading supplier of client-server
computing solutions. Sun Federal, founded in 1985, is headquartered in
Milpitas, Calif.

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