AG Communication Systems to buy 500 SPARC Solaris systems.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1995--Sun Microsystems Computer Co. (SMCC SMCC - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. ) Monday reported that it has won a large software development contract, valued at approximately $4.8 million, from AG Communication Systems, a developer of advanced telecommunications products. The company has agreed to purchase approximately 500 Sun systems as part of its vision of building a heterogeneous development network to improve quality and productivity. The company will use powerful SPARCstation 20 workstations and SPARCserver 1000 departmental servers running the Solaris operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. for all aspects of its internal software development business, including applications to be deployed for intelligent network environments and other advanced telecommunications services. "Intelligent networking" is one of the fastest-growing areas in telecommunications for both wireless and wireline networks. After an extensive evaluation of competing companies, AG Communication Systems chose SMCC to be its business partner. The two companies will continue to work together on joint marketing and sales opportunities. AG Communication Systems will install systems in internal development and support organizations, and then rapidly deploy systems for individual customer projects. SMCC's open, scalable client-server architecture client-server architecture Architecture of a computer network in which many clients (remote processors) request and receive service from a centralized server (host computer). enables users to add computing resources as needed as needed prn. See prn order. as their demands grow. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , SPARCstation, SPARCserver and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks, including the SCD ScD [L.] Scien´tiae Doc´tor (Doctor of Science). SCD 1 Sickle cell disease, see there 2 Subacute combined degeneration, see there 3 Sudden cardiac death, see there Compliant logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Co. Ltd. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web. Type http://www.sun.com. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems Computer Co.
Penny Johnson, 415/336-6180
Burson-Marsteller
Ted Dupont, 212/614-4562
AG Communication Systems
Tom Stagner, 602/582-7520
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