sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash CIOs Rank Sun Number One SunFLASH Vol 57 #33 September 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57.33 CIO Magazine Rank Sun Number One Leading chief information officers (CIOs) from across the nation gave Sun Microsystems, Inc. top ranking in most categories in a recent CIO survey conducted by CIO magazine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Gayle Jennings at (415) 336-0787 CIOs RANK SUN MICROSYSTEMS No. 1 CIO Magazine's Readers Give Sun Five Top Votes MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- September 28, 1993 -- Leading chief information officers (CIOs) from across the nation gave Sun Microsystems, Inc. top ranking in most categories in a recent CIO survey conducted by CIO magazine. Sun was ranked No. 1 in five out of seven workstation categories in the Reader's Choice Award: best return on investment, leadership in technology, best price/performance, and brand awareness. CIOs also voted Sun as the company they would most likely consider purchasing products from within the next 12 months. According to a study, CIO magazine's readers control the spending of IT budgets that average $23 million each annually. Sun has seen its sales to business users increase dramatically as companies "rightsize" their information technology. Leading Sun system customers include Avis Car Rental, Citibank India, Kash n' Karry, London Underground, NYNEX. According to Dataquest, the number of workstations used for business applications will grow 97.7 percent between 1991 and 1996. Workstations in commercial applications will account for $18.1 billion of the $33.5 billion workstation market in 1996. In a recent IDC report, Sun servers accounted for the largest share of the market -- 39.8 percent of the worldwide unit shipments of "as-sold" workstation servers for 1992. As the world's leading workstation and server vendor, Sun anticipates increased opportunities, particularly as more businesses move to a Sun client-server computing model to reduce overall IT costs and improve a company's competitive advantage. Sun Microsystems Inc. is an integrated portfolio of businesses that supply distributed computing technologies, products and services. Its innovative open client-server computing solutions, include networked workstations and multiprocessing servers, operating system software, silicon designs and other value added-technologies. According to analysts, the company's products command the largest share of one of the computer industry's fastest growing market segments: workstations and servers. Founded in 1982, Sun is a Fortune 139 company with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Sun is the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup Soccer 1994. # # # Sun, the Sun logo, and Sun Microsystems, are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other products are referred to herein by the trademarks as designated by the companies who market those products. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.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. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909