sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunNews: NASA CAD, Norway Air Transport, UFREIGHT & Sun SunFLASH Vol 51 #41 March 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA AWARDS SUN FEDERAL CONTRACT FOR CAE/CAD WORKSTATIONS NORWAY MODERNIZES AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS WITH SUN UFREIGHT SELECTS SUN COMPUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Carol Hartzell, SMCC PR (415) 336-0598. Subject: NASA AWARDS SUN FEDERAL CONTRACT FOR CAE/CAD WORKSTATIONS MILPITAS, Calif. - March 30, 1993 - Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., announced today that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for CAE/CAD Electronic Circuit Design Workstations. This contract is the first nationwide NASA win for Sun Federal. The Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (SEWP) consists of nine contracts that offer a wide range of UNIX® workstations, printers and networking equipment. The aggregate value of all contracts under the Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA) could exceed $800 million. Each contract is for a specific scientific and engineering application or "class." The contracts are for one base year with four, one-year renewable options. Sun Federal will provide Sun(TM) SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) workstation and server platforms (Class 1) to be used for the development of custom and semi-custom very large scale integration (VLSI) chip designs and for the designing, routing and placing of printed circuit board layouts. Specific functions include schematic capture, timing tests, simulations, route and place, and test and verification of prototype physical components. 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 1984, is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Lauren Swingle, SMCC PR at (415) 336-7273 Subject: NORWAY MODERNIZES AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS WITH SUN MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- March 30, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that the Civil Aviation Administration of Norway recently signed a major contract with one of SMCC's key integrators in the transportation industry, Raytheon Company, to modernize its air traffic control systems. The contract specifies Sun(TM) SPARCstation(TM) computers with the Solaris(R) operating environment and demonstrates a growing and highly successful relationship between SMCC and Raytheon, a diversified, technology-based company that has been in the business of designing air traffic control systems for the past 40 years. At the air traffic control center in Oslo, Norway, more than 150 SPARCstation(TM) IPX workstations are being installed over a two-year period to be used as a complement to the new Raytheon Autotrac 2100 air traffic control system. Air traffic control personnel will use the workstations for entry and display of support information, like flight and weather data. The integration of this information with the air traffic control system will result in more efficient decision making by personnel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Lauren Swingle, SMCC PR at (415) 336-7273. Subject: UFREIGHT SELECTS SUN COMPUTERS UFREIGHT SELECTS SUN COMPUTERS FOR INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- March 29, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that UFreight Holdings, one of the largest independent air freight companies in Asia, has chosen Sun(TM) SPARCstation and SPARCserver systems, running the Solaris(R) operating environment, to operate an international real-time freight management system. The system, known as Air-Freight Forwarding System Architecture (AFSA), will handle UFreight's entire business operations across 28 sites in 13 countries. Incorporating core components for business operations, sales, accounting and decision support, the system supports a wide range of Asian and European languages. It also supports sophisticated local and international communications, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail and fax. The system incorporates modules for pre-sales, booking, warehouse, export, import, accounting, managerial support and logistics. These modules automate the entire freight process, from initial booking through cargo pick-up, air waybill preparation, consolidation, cargo arrival, documentation and delivery. Also built in is a user-friendly graphical interface that can be learned in just one hour, and automatic functions such as database administration that are invoked from the application program. UFreight was looking for an open, UNIX-based, networked client-server solution with strong price/performance, multilingual capability, an easy-to-use graphical interface and the latest object-oriented programming techniques. By teaming with a local software developer, Integrated Concepts International Limited (ICIL), SMCC demonstrated the most effective total solution. The AFSA solution, based on the Sybase relational database management system, uses two high-end SPARCserver(TM) 690 MP servers, six SPARCserver 630 servers, 20 SPARCstation(TM) 10 and 300 SPARCstation ELC workstations. These are being installed in 13 countries, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, the Philippines, Japan and the Netherlands, with provision for additional sites in Thailand, Korea and China. "By automating all our worldwide information processes, the Sun system increases efficiency, improves customer satisfaction and gives us a significant competitive advantage," said N.S. Cheong, director of UFreight Holdings. Cheong said that one of the major advantages of the Sun system is that, due to the client-server configuration, each site has the flexibility to choose the computer platform that is appropriate to the size of its operation. "This allows each site to grow as it needs without pre-committing hardware resources," he said. "If a larger machine is needed, an upgrade can happen without changing the software." Cheong added that another benefit is that all sites and all databases are immediately accessible from one location. "In this way, users can make up-to-the-minute business decisions based on correct, real-time data about freight movements, customer activity and quotations," he said. "Previously, this kind of information was just not available. "In addition, since information is only entered once and automatically updated around the world, the chance of human error is greatly reduced and hence service to customers improves. Although the system represented a major investment, the improvements it has enabled will allow us to recoup the total costs within a year," he said. "Already, we are predicting a 50 percent cut in communications costs by June." In addition to UFreight, other SMCC customers in the freight segment include United Parcel Service, World Corporate, Yellow Freight, Federal Express, UPS, Challenger Motor Freight, SET (France), and IPEC (Australia). Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions. The company has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. ### Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corp., Solaris and the Sun logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant Logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. SPARCstation and SPARCserver are licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing the SPARC trademarks are based on architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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