sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Announces Millionth Sun Computer Solaris Base Reaches 1.4 Million SunFLASH Vol 58 #2 October 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.02 Sun Announces Millionth Sun Computer, 1.4 Million Solaris Licenses millionth computer joins world's largest installed base of workstations. Sun selects long-term, significant partner - Fujitsu - to receive millionth machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MILLIONTH SUN COMPUTER MOVES OFF ASSEMBLY LINE; SOLARIS BASE REACHES 1.4 MILLION MILPITAS, Calif. -- September 30, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems marked a major milestone today when it manufactured its millionth computer, which will join the world's largest installed base of workstations. In addition, total units shipped of the popular Solaris(R) environment have reached 1.4 million copies. The 11-year-old company commemorated these events by selecting a long-term, significant partner as the recipient of its millionth machine and Solaris software. A right-off-the-line SPARCstation(TM) 10 workstation and a Japanese-language Solaris CD were presented to Fujitsu, Ltd., chief executive officer Tadashi Sekizawa in a special ceremony at Sun's highly automated Milpitas manufacturing plant. While two-story-tall robots performed final testing functions in the background, Sun CEO Scott McNealy gave the SPARCstation to Mr. Sekizawa, after which Edward Zander, president of SunSoft, presented him with the Solaris CD. McNealy explained that Sun's relationship with Fujitsu is a good example of the kind of multi-pronged, two-way partnership it frequently maintains with its largest customers. The fact that Fujitsu is an overseas company demonstrates the importance of foreign customers to Sun, which is the second largest U.S. exporter (after Boeing) as a percentage of sales. Fujitsu, Japan's leading computer manufacturer and the world's second largest computer company, is a major Sun reseller in Japan of both computers and the Solaris environment, also supplying Sun with computer components. Like many Sun resellers, Fujitsu uses Sun(R) systems internally for different functions. In addition, the two firms are partners in the development of advanced SPARC(R) microprocessors, which a Fujitsu subsidiary manufactures and sells to Sun for its systems. Sun's relationship with Fujitsu underscores the strategic value of the Japanese market to the California-based company, which has been the number-one workstation vendor in Japan since 1987, according to analyst reports. Sun's relationship with Fujitsu began shortly after Sun was founded. Noted Mr. Sekizawa: "Both Sun and Fujitsu are committed to SPARC and UNIX. I am looking forward to the expansion and development of our mutually beneficial partnership." Currently, International Data Corp. places Sun as the world leader in workstations and servers, with a market share of 38.7 percent in 1992. Solaris is the world's leading 32-bit computing environment, with more than 8,000 applications running on SPARC and x86 platforms. Sun has expanded its market beyond the technical computing arena in which the company began. However, Sun remains dominant in all key technical workstation markets, having just rushed past IBM and Hewlett-Packard in mechanical computer-aided design, according to Dataquest. Sun's workstation factory -- site of today's commemorative ceremony -- is the world's largest, with a capacity of 1,000 systems a day. When added to the adjacent server factory, these operations contain 250,000 square feet and employ 900 workers. With board and system manufacturing performed under the same roof -- while many other computer vendors have moved subassembly manufacturing to Asia -- this factory shows Sun's commitment to manufacturing and employment in the Silicon Valley. Besides the advantages of having engineering development operations near the assembly line, Sun has enjoyed record-breaking "time-to-volume" in the fast-moving workstation industry. For example, the SPARCstation 10 system had the fastest manufacturing ramp up in history, going from an output of zero to 10,000 units in only 20 days. Sun Microsystems Inc. is the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions. Sun is the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup Soccer 1994. The company has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. # # # Sun, the Sun logo, Solaris and Sun Microsystems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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