SUN TO DONATE WORKSTATIONS TO AREA SCHOOLS, CREATING WIDE AREA NETWORKS AND ACCESS TO INTERNET; Over 500 Teachers to be Trained to Leverage the Power of the Network

Business Wire, July 7, 1995

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1995--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today expanded its commitment to bring the information superhighway to area schools by donating a SPARC-station(TM) 20 system to the Santa Clara Office of Education, which will use the workstation to distribute Internet services to every school in Santa Clara County, and a SPARCstation 5 system to the East Side High School District and to the San Jose Unified School District. The donations will include all of the hardware, software, and training and support needed to build wide area networks in and between schools and will provide access to the Internet.

Sun will kick-off its effort on Saturday with a two-day "train-the-trainers" training session for teachers from the area school districts at the company's Milpitas campus. The training will focus on helping the teachers guide their way through the Internet, highlighting specifics such as: on-line tools and resources, using browsers, Hypertext/HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Web Page development and Web publishing. These teachers will then train an additional 500 Bay Area teachers at various sites throughout the course of the summer.

"These teachers will leave here empowered to share the Internet's vast resources with other teachers, benefiting in turn a large network of students," Gary Serda, Manager, Corporate Affairs, Sun Microsystems, remarked of the training session. "This pilot program marks a long-term commitment by Sun to bring much needed technology to schools."

SPARCstation 5 and SPARCstation 20

Sun's SPARCstation 5 workstation delivers a full range of computing power for users running commercial or technical applications at the departmental or enterprise level. The SPARCstation 5 machine is ideal for applications such as color imaging, mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), electronic design automation (EDA) and 2-D mapping. Due to the system's combination of computing power, expandability and low cost, users have made the SPARCstation 5 machine the best-selling workstation in the industry and the fastest-growing product line in Sun's history.

The SPARCstation 20 workstations are outstanding platforms for mechanical design, engineering and analysis, scientific visualization, animation and other high-end technical applications requiring both CPU and 3-D graphics performance.

Sun and the Internet

As the company which has long proclaimed that the "Network is the Computer(TM), Sun sees the Internet as the world's largest computer with over three million interconnected computers and more than 30 million users.

Sun has been involved in developing Internet connections for several U.S. cities, businesses and schools. Recently, Sun assisted East Side High School District students to develop their own home page on the World Wide Web; the Web page may be accessed by typing: http//www.sjen.org at the URL prompt.

With revenues in excess of $5 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX industry. Founded in 1982, Sun is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 13,000 people in 32 corporate offices worldwide. -0-

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