---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunNews: American Airlines, RE/MAX, Shareholder Suit, Toshiba SunFLASH Vol 50 #13 February 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article consists of four recent Sun Press Releases. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Airlines Decision Technology Teams with SMCC RE/MAX Signs $4 Million Deal with Sun Sun Settles Shareholder Lawsuits Toshiba and SMCC Collaborate in Japanese Market -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: American Airlines Decision Technology Teams with SMCC For more information please contact: Lauren Swingle, SMCC PR, at (415) 336-7273 or Philippe Lavie, SMCC Marketing, at (415) 336-4406. AMERICAN AIRLINES DECISION TECHNOLOGY TEAMS WITH SMCC SMCC Gains Momentum in the Air Transport Industry MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- February 16, 1993-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that American Airlines Decision Technologies (AADT) has selected Sun (TM) SPARCstation(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) systems for the development and deployment of decision support software solutions for the transportation industry. AADT, a software development and consulting subsidiary of the AMR Corp. and an affiliate of American Airlines, is a premier provider of operations research and decision support technology utilizing distributed computing. The company is also working with SMCC to port its existing INTELA product line for the air transport industry to the Sun platform. AADT is a SMCC value-added reseller and a participant in SunSoft's third-party Catalyst Program. AADT has been instrumental in the push toward UNIX(R)-based, client-server computing in the mainframe-dependent transportation industry. The company provides decision support systems for American Airlines, as well as for outside companies like Lufthansa German Airlines, Federal Express, Britannia Airways, Holiday Inn, Club Med and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Its INTELA product line includes software solutions for operations control, reservations, flight scheduling, crew scheduling, yield management and airline pricing management. These products will be available on Sun systems by the middle of 1993. AADT also offers solutions for cargo operations, airport operations, hotel yield management, railway scheduling, and maintenance and engineering. "We have been very impressed with the Sun organization," said Peter von Moltke, vice president of sales and marketing at AADT. "The technology suits our requirements very well and Sun's emphasis on service has been impressive. We are confident that this move will enable us to be even more successful in delivering our strategic systems to transportation companies worldwide." SMCC is significantly expanding its presence in the worldwide air travel industry, as seen by recent sales of its SPARC(R) computer systems to companies like AADT and to leading airlines and international airports. New domestic and international customers represent a range of application areas and include more than 40 customers in the airline industry, such as the Munich Airport, Sydney Airport, Cathay Pacific Airlines, World Airways Corporation, Canadian Airlines, Mandarin Airlines, American Airlines and many more. Customers selected SMCC to streamline and enhance applications such as flight and crew planning, engineering maintenance, passenger revenue accounting, and scheduling. Though the applications vary, SMCC has been consistently chosen by these customers because of its innovative technology and the Solaris(R) operating environment, industry leading price/performance ratio, adherence to industry standards, networking strengths and the availability of more than 7,420 third-party solutions. This is further highlighted by the increasing importance Sun servers and workstations are playing in the areas of yield management, terminal management systems and airspace and aircraft management. American Airlines Decision Technology (AADT) provides decision support systems and associated consulting services to travel- and transport-related companies worldwide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE/MAX Signs $4 Million Deal with Sun For more information, please conatct: Carrie Dillon, Public Relations at (415) 336-3564 or Wendy Moro, Hi-Tech Communications at (415) 904-7000. RE/MAX SIGNS $4 MILLION DEAL WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS DE MEXICO RE/MAX To Use Multimedia Application As Competitive Advantage MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- February 15, 1993 -- RE/MAX Mexico, a division of Comercializadora Inmobiliaria Mexicana, S.A. de CV., Guadalajara-based real estate franchising corporation, has signed a contract valued at over $4 million with Sun Microsystems de Mexico, the Mexican subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. The contract covers the purchase of over 600 SPARCstation (TM) and SPARCserver (TM) systems. RE/MAX plans to incorporate these systems into a computer network across Latin America and use the systems' powerful multimedia and graphics capabilites to give customers a sophisticated, multinational real estate listing service. The multimedia application that RE/MAX will run on SPARCstation and SPARCserver systems is called CLI/MAX which stands for "Consolidacion de Listados Interactiva/Maxima." The CLI/MAX system uses advanced database query capabilities to search for a customer's ideal property. The databases include color pictures of available properties, architectural plans, walk-through videos as well as detailed property information and neighborhood characteristics. Peter Bowthorpe, general manager of RE/MAX Mexico, commented, "Sun has demonstrated cost-effective multimedia technology that will not only save time for our customers but will also give RE/MAX a significant business advantage in the very competitive real estate business in Mexico and Latin America." RE/MAX's new computer network will include many of Sun's new SPARCclassic (TM) workstations running the Solaris(R) 2.1 operating system which has an intuitive graphics user interface called OPEN LOOK(R). Installation of the new systems will begin immediately. To date the first 27 franchises have already been sold in Mexico. RE/MAX International, Inc. is the world's leader in sales with over 33,000 real estate sales associates and over $75 billion in real estate transactions in calendar year 1992. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Sun Settles Shareholder Lawsuits MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- February 9, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that on February 4, 1993, it agreed to settle two separate securities class action lawsuits brought by shareholders that were pending in the Federal District Court in San Jose, California. The first case related to the Company's fourth fiscal quarter of 1989, and the second related to the Company's first fiscal quarter of 1991. The combined settlement amount for the two cases is $30 million, half of which will be covered by insurance. Sun has taken a one-time charge to earnings for its second fiscal quarter ending December 27, 1992, of 10 cents per share for its portion of the settlements. The effect of this charge was not reflected in the Company's previously announced earnings for the second quarter but will be reflected in the Company's Form 10-Q for the second quarter to be filed next week. The settlements conclude all outstanding securities class actions that were pending against the Company. They are, however, subject to confirmation by the Court, which is expected. The first case was settled for $25 million. The second case was settled for $5 million. Both cases named the Company and various officers as defendants and asserted a variety of securities fraud claims. Commenting on the settlements, Michael H. Morris, Vice President and General Counsel of Sun, said, "The Company believes that its officers acted properly during the periods of time covered by these lawsuits and that the allegations contained in the complaints were not true. However, defense of these matters through trial, with the inherent risks of litigation, would have entailed enormous legal expense and the devotion of substantial management time and energy which, in our Board's opinion, could far better be spent on running the business." Sun Microsystems, Inc., is an integrated portfolio of businesses that supply distributed computing technologies, products and services. Its innovative open client-server computing solutions include networked workstations and multiprocessing servers, operating system software, silicon designs and other value-added technologies. According to analysts, the company's products command the largest share of one of the computer industry's fastest growing market segments: workstations and servers. Founded in 1982, Sun is a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Mountain View, California. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Investor Relations Jeanne Storment (415) 336-6295 Public Relations Chuck Mulloy (415) 336-6424 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Toshiba and SMCC Collaborate in Japanese Market For more information, please contact: Cindee Mock, Sun Public Relations at (415) 336-3563 or Robert A. Winttenburg, Toshiba America Inc. at (714) 583-3047, or Wendy Moro, Hi-Tech Communications at (415) 904-7000. TOSHIBA AND SMCC COLLABORATE IN JAPANESE MARKET Powerful New UNIX(R) Server Aimed At Japan's Rightsizing Efforts MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- February 16, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have signed an agreement whereby Toshiba will sell systems, including the powerful SPARCcenter(TM) 2000 server, to be known as the UX5000 in Japan, as well as jointly developed products. Toshiba expects that the sales of these products in Japan could reach up to $1.4 billion (170 billion yen) over three years. Based on the SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) platform, the UX5000 provides unprecedented expandability and up to 20-way multiprocessing capabilities. In a 20-way configuration, the UX5000 delivers 2.19 GIPS(giga{billion} instructions per second) and 269 MFLOPS (million floating point operations per second.) The server utilizes a modular design in which a single board can be replicated up to ten times to easily configure a larger, more powerful system. Toshiba has been distributing SMCC's workstations since 1986 and has numerous installations of UNIX and open systems in the Japanese market. This latest agreement demonstrates Toshiba's ongoing commitment to open systems. The UX5000 will be part of a comprehensive rightsizing solution from Toshiba that will also include offerings like desktop systems, service and support and critical software such as RDBMS and tools for client-server environments. SMCC, Toshiba To Work On Joint Development Sun and Toshiba will also be working jointly to develop and localize application tools such as Toshiba's "middleware" software that combines Toshiba-developed software with third-party products. Middleware products will address critical needs of data center users such as high availability. The two companies will also work closely in marketing, system integration and technology collaboration. According to Scott McNealy, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc., this agreement reflects Sun's strong partnership with Toshiba and Toshiba Systems Group's continued commitment to SPARC systems and Solaris distributed operating environment. "Once again, Toshiba is showing its market savvy by being one of the first in Japan to embrace a major new trend: rightsizing. Along with open systems and client-server computing, this trend will significantly change corporate computing in the coming years." Commenting on his company's latest agreement with Sun, Masaichi Koga, senior vice president and director, group executive of Toshiba's Information Processing & Control Systems Group, said, "Toshiba has been in the host computer business in the Japanese domestic market since 1954 in the commercial, engineering and process control solution systems. And Toshiba was the first supplier of rightsizing distributed processing systems in 1979, though with the proprietary architecture at that time. Toshiba's experience in these systems in the Japanese market will be reflected in hardware and software developed here with Sun's assistance for use together with Sun's excellent platform SPARCcenter 2000. It is Toshiba's great pleasure to expand its eight-year collaboration with Sun in Japan into the emerging market of the high-performance UNIX systems server." Rightsizing Gains Momentum In Japan Japan's rightsizing efforts have rapidly accelerated in the past few years. Although mainframes still compose 33 percent of Japan's computer market, Japanese corporate users are rapidly moving away from proprietary systems and opting for less-expensive open UNIX systems that will link their heterogeneous networks together. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Toshiba Corporation is integrated maker of electronics products and systems, with annual sales of approximately $36 billion. In the computer field, the companies product is ranging from laptop/notebook computer, workstation, distribute data processing system, minicomputer, small business computer to process computer. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) is the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions. With headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., SMCC is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, Sun, the Sun logo and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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