---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SUNSOFT ANNOUNCES SOLARIS DEVELOPER CONFERENCE March 29-31 SunFLASH Vol 51 #1 March 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 29-31, 1993 The Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA To register, call: 1-800-433-4224 Fax: 415-388-7506 Mail: Solaris Developer Conference, c/o Event Registration Services, 407 Magee Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941-1862 If you register for this conference, please mention that you heard about this conference from John J. McLaughlin, the Florida SunFlash Editor. Thanks! Two articles enclosed: 1. Press Release about Solaris Developers Conference 2. Special discount on a SPARCclassic for show attendees -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Technology And Partners To Be Unveiled MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 16, 1993 -- SunSoft, Inc. today announced its Second Annual Solaris Developer Conference to be held March 29-31 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference, titled "Tomorrow's Applications Today," will focus on all aspects of the Solaris solution including new technologies, development tools and software. In addition, SunSoft will make major announcements about the Solaris environment and its partners worldwide. The conference will be kicked off with a press conference hosted by Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc., Edward Zander, president of SunSoft, and leaders in the SPARC and x86 arena. The three-day conference will feature a joint keynote address by John Warnock, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Adobe Systems and Charles Geschke, president and chief operating officer of Adobe Systems. The "Solaris Visions" session, hosted by Bud Tribble, vice president of software at SunSoft, will give attendees a glimpse of technologies that will drive computing in this decade. "Today, Solaris is the most widely used rightsizing solution in the market with record shipments and applications," said Bill Larson, vice president of marketing and sales at SunSoft. "Our momentum continues with new partners and technologies, further establishing our leadership in this market." The Solaris Developer Conference will feature more than 30 technical sessions on a range of topics including networking, multithreading, system administration, installation, security, graphics, window systems, multimedia and development tools. Special sessions will address SunSoft's Project DOE (Distributed Objects Everywhere) initiative, covering the company's object strategy and future directions. The Solaris conference will be followed by a special Distributed Object Conference, where SunSoft will discuss and exchange ideas on object technology with key software developers, hardware manufacturers and corporate end users. In addition, hands-on discovery sessions at the conference will focus on programming with Solaris, implementing human interface design and building distributed object-oriented applications. A product fair will showcase the latest software and hardware products running on the Solaris solution. The cost of the Solaris Developer Conference is $695 and includes three-day conference participation and the Solaris Developer Pak that consists of the Solaris product for SPARC and x86, development tools and compilers. To register, call 1-800-433-4224. SunSoft, the world's leading supplier of UNIX, shipped more than 131,000 Solaris 2.x licenses during the Sept.-Dec. quarter, an all-time high for the company and more than double the licenses shipped in the previous quarter. The Solaris distributed computing environment now has an installed base of more than 750,000 units, the highest in the RISC-UNIX marketplace. SunSoft has a run rate of more than 350,000 UNIX licenses per year. More than 40 percent of the company's run rate is in the rightsizing market where corporations use Solaris to run the enterprise. Customers include Federal Express, Dunkin' Donuts, Kodak, Munich Airport, Mitsubishi and Salomon Brothers. SunSoft, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. ### 1993 Copyright Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunSoft, Solaris, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. This announcement was made on February 16, 1993. For more information, please contact: Karen Andre, SunSoft, Inc. at (415) 336-3890 or Emily Wanderer, Hi-Tech Communications at (415) 904-7000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 1993 SOLARIS DEVELOPER CONFERENCE March 29-31, 1993 The Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA Announcing special pricing offered to attendees only! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SMCC provides a "Classic" Invitation to Purchase a SPARCclassic at 36% off* Worldwide. As if offering the hottest technical sessions in the industry wasn't enough, the Solaris Developer Conference will also offer attendees the opportunity to purchase a Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), SPARCclassic Workstation at 36% off* their local price. Customer information sheets on this special promotional pricing, and conference details, will be arriving in Sun sales offices shortly. Sunsoft will be providing development tools to attendees along with technical sessions on expediting in-house development. Special pricing will be offered to Solaris Developer Conference attendees only and applies only to the following configuration: SPARCclassic order number 4/15DC-16-P40 15-inch Color Monitor, 16-Mbyte, 207-Mbyte Internal SCSI-2 disk Orders will be accepted April 1st to April 30th, 1993. How it works: The SunSoft registration badge presented to attendees at the conference becomes a discount coupon redeemable for a SPARCclassic at a discount of 36%*. Registration badges must have an SMCC-numbered control sticker affixed to be valid. The badge must be returned to Order Operations along with the attendee's order to verify that he or she attended the Solaris Developer Conference. * 36% off local country quantity (1) pricing. This is a savings of 10% off even the Catalyst Developers discounted pricing on this machine! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909.