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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

               LEADING DECISION SUPPORT SOFTWARE
                     DEBUTS ON SUN PLATFORM

SunFLASH Vol 45 #35					      September 1992 
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- September 22, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Information Resources,
Inc. (IRI), a leading developer of executive information systems (EIS)
and decision support systems (DSS), ported its first full client-sever
UNIX(R) system software to the Sun(TM) platform.  Under a joint
marketing and sales agreement, IRI will sell its EXPRESS- brand
software on Sun SPARCstation(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) systems running
the Solaris(R) operating environment.  The company will offer EIS and
DSS systems for finance, sales, marketing, human resources and quality
assurance applications to Fortune 1,000 companies and government
agencies.

Pricing for IRI's Workstation EXPRESS software on Sun systems starts at
$2,000 for a single-user system.  The EXPRESS Server software begins at
$25,000.  Software is currently available for shipment.

DSS and EIS systems give companies the means to collect, analyze and
manage business information to help managers monitor operations
performance, locate problem areas, perform situation analysis and
explore solutions to business problems.  Traditional host-based DSS/EIS
systems burden the mainframe with both the transaction processing and
data query responsibilities.  In contrast, client-server solutions pull
the query task off the transaction system to distribute decision-making
information and allow for more rapid responses to data requests.
Currently, SMCC IRI Ports to Sun Systems holds the leading market share
for UNIX hardware systems running DSS and EIS software.

"IRI EXPRESS will be a vital component of our client-server solution,"
said William J. Raduchel, chief information officer for Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  "EXPRESS provides the perfect tool for
consolidating and reporting information in a distributed environment."

IRI's software offers multiple capabilities within a single, integrated
software environment.  The software includes a complete set of query
and analysis tools, a multi-dimensional database able to import data
from other relational and flat databases and a fourth-generation
language (4GL) for customizing applications and building new ones.

"The explosive growth and acceptance of rightsizing computing platforms
and UNIX system applications have placed SMCC at the forefront of an
important corporate computing trend," said Jeffrey P.  Stamen,
president of IRI's software products group.  "We foresee many
opportunities for successfully combining our EXPRESS software with Sun
systems to serve commercial and government customers."

Information Resources, Inc., (NASDAQ IRIC), provides a variety of
software and information services for improved end user decision
making.  IRI's Software Products Group, headquartered in Waltham,
Mass., develops and markets decision support applications and executive
information systems for marketing, sales, planning, finance and
operations.  In addition to the UNIX operating system, IRI software is
available for mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers.

Press Contact
Dan Stevens of Hi-Tech Communications at (415) 904-7000 x265.

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