sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunSoft Supports Transfer of UNIX to X/Open SunFLASH Vol 58 #8 October 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.08 SunSoft Supports Transfer of UNIX to X/Open ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following announcement is being made today, October 11, 1993, by SunSoft. Ed Zander is participating in a press conference with Novell, X/Open and several UNIX companies to announce the news. Contact: Shernaz Daver SunSoft, Inc. 415-336-4360 SUNSOFT SUPPORTS TRANSFER OF UNIX TRADEMARK TO X/OPEN MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- October 11, 1993 -- SunSoft, Inc. today announced its support of Novell's transfer of the UNIX system trademark to X/Open. The company also endorsed X/Open's plans to manage the ongoing evolution of the UNIX specification in a public and vendor-neutral forum. Today's announcement is an affirmation of the open systems premise which Sun Microsystems, Inc. helped pioneer in the industry. Under open systems, unencumbered specifications are freely available, independent branding and certification processes exist, multiple implementations of a single product may be created and competition is enhanced. Based on the premise of open systems, Sun has created a $4 billion company that is ranked 139 in the Fortune 500. It is the leader in the worldwide workstation/server market with over 38.7 percent of total shipments (International Data Corp.). The company recently shipped its 1.4 millionth unit of the Solaris software, making it the volume leader in the UNIX market. "We are in the midst of a large dislocation in the computing industry where users are rejecting proprietary software solutions," said Edward J. Zander, president of SunSoft, Inc. "Today's announcement will make the UNIX specification truly open, allowing companies to create and compete on the best software implementations and giving customers greater choice in their buying decisions. We commend Novell's efforts in making this happen in such a short timeframe." SunSoft's Solaris software environment meets all of the current requirements specified for UNIX conformance. The current version of the Solaris software is 99 percent compliant with the new 1170 specification and will be fully compliant within a year. This high degree of conformance allows Solaris customers to protect their current software investments and receive a higher return on their software. The 1170 specification is the application binary interface (ABI) specification agreed upon by more than 75 of the world's leading UNIX vendors last month, enhancing the portability of UNIX system-based applications across platforms. SunSoft's Solaris environment is designed to combine the features of high performance computing -- such as networking, multiprocessing, multithreading, installation, administration and security -- with the ease-of-use of personal computers, making it the rightsizing solution of choice for global enterprises. It is available on the highest volume RISC and CISC architectures, SPARC and x86, and will be delivered on the PowerPC platform in 1994. More than 8,000 32-bit applications -- the largest base in the world -- run on Solaris today. 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 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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