sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Kodak, Adobe Support SPARCstation 10SX SunFLASH Vol 58 #20 October 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.20 Kodak, Adobe Support SPARCstation 10SX Kodak will incorporate the SPARCstation 10SX system in several imaging products that produce Photo CD discs. SMCC announced today that the SPARCstation 10SX system will come with a coupon redeemable for a complimentary copy of Adobe Photoshop, the industry-leading image processing application from Adobe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Robert Manetta (415) 336-0979 Complimentary Copy of Adobe Photoshop Offered With New System MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- October 19, 1993 -- Eastman Kodak Company and Adobe Systems Incorporated today demonstrated their support for the new Sun(R) SPARCstation(TM) 10SX system through resale, bundling and licensing agreements with Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC). The two industry leaders are among a host of vendors whose applications will run on the SPARCstation 10SX system and two new multimedia Sun workstations introduced today. Eastman Kodak Company will incorporate the SPARCstation 10SX system in several imaging products that produce Photo CD discs. These products, to be introduced by Kodak over the next year, use compact optical discs to store, enhance and display everything from family snapshots to high-resolution satellite images. Kodak chose the Sun workstation for the new Photo CD products because of its unmatched imaging performance at an affordable price. "There is currently no workstation on the market that comes close to it," said Fred Geyer, vice president and general manager of Kodak's imaging division. The SPARCstation 10SX costs less than $16,000 but delivers the imaging performance of a proprietary imaging workstations costing $60,000 or more. As part of the new Kodak products, the SPARCstation 10SX will perform all image editing and manipulation functions on Photo CD images, including cropping, sharpening and altering color, color density and contrast. Photo CD On Solaris(R) Kodak and SunSoft announced that Photo CD display and editing capabilities will be available on the next release of the Solaris(R) operating environment. This enables all Solaris system users and independent software vendors to display and enhance Kodak Photo CD images. SunSoft will also make a patch for Photo CD available with its recently announced Solaris 2.3 software environment, beginning next month. This is not the first time Kodak and SMCC have collaborated. Since Kodak began marketing Photo CD imaging workstations in 1992, the SPARCstation 2 system has been the base platform. In addition, Kodak engineers were consulted for the initial design specifications of the SPARCstation 10SX system. This past March, Kodak and SunSoft announced that Kodak's KCMS color management system and precision color transforms -- which give workstation users extremely realistic color display and output capabilities -- would be incorporated into the Solaris environment. Complimentary Copy of Adobe Photoshop(TM) Separately, SMCC announced today that the SPARCstation 10SX system will come with a coupon redeemable for a complimentary copy of Adobe Photoshop, the industry-leading image processing application from Adobe. Until now, Adobe Photoshop had only been available on personal computers and Macintoshes. "We are excited about this special offer to provide Adobe Photoshop with the SPARCstation 10SX," said Steve MacDonald, senior vice president and general manager, Systems Products Division at Adobe Systems. "Combining the features and flexibility of Adobe Photoshop software with the power and performance of the new SPARCstation 10SX will provide a significant boost in end user productivity. We will continue to work with Sun to provide solutions that strengthen and broaden each company's market position." Adobe Photoshop software is used to manipulate scanned or computer-generated continuous tone, bitmap, grayscale or color images. Creative professionals may edit and reposition any image or portion of an image, and import and export image files with other graphics programs including those that support Encapsulated PostScript and Adobe Illustrator(R) file formats. The program provides a variety of special effects filters and 16-million-color paint capability and performs a variety of professional functions such as color editing and separations. The coupon for the complimentary copy of Adobe Photoshop software will be included with every SPARCstation 10SX sold through March, 1994. Customers can obtain the application by mailing the coupon back to Adobe. Photoshop is expected to be used in a wide range of applications on SPARCstation systems, including pre-press, industrial design, geographic information systems and creating/enhancing digital film, video and animation. "SMCC has targeted the networked publishing and color imaging markets and relationships with industry leaders like Kodak and Adobe are a key part of our strategy to be the leader in these markets." said Jay Puri, SMCC's vice president of product marketing. Kodak and Adobe are among many third-party vendors whose applications will soon take advantage of the many features of the SPARCstation 10SX. Among these application vendors are AVS (scientific visualization), CEMAX (medical), ERDAS (GIS), KHORAL Research (imaging application development), Apunix (image processing), TimeArts (pre-press, animation), International Imaging Systems (GIS), Landmark Graphics (oil and gas) and Marquette Electronics (medical). SMCC's new multimedia workstations -- the SPARCstation 10M and SPARCclassic(TM) M -- enjoy broad third-party support as well. Among the vendors with applications running on the new workstations are AimTech (multimedia authoring), Apunix (image editing), InSoft (video conferencing, TV-in-a-window), Paradise Software (video on demand), RAD Technologies (video editing) and SunSolutions (desktop video conferencing solution including video, audio, shared applications and shared whiteboard). Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions, is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun is the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup Soccer 1994. SMCC has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. # # # Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, the Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation logo, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. 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