Digital Customers Have Bright Future With Sun -- Sun Announces Worldwide Migration Program.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) today announced a worldwide migration program for Digital Equipment Corp. customers who are worried about the future of the company and its product and technology roadmap The context of product management The existence of product managers in the product software industry indicates that software is becoming more and more commercialized as a standard product. in light of its pending acquisition by Compaq Computer Corp. Packaged as the PAQ-Back program, Sun is offering Digital customers twice the normal trade-in allowance on servers and a combination of free monitors, free CPUs or free graphics for its desktop workstations. The PAQ-Back promotional pricing is effective immediately and ends June 30. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study by the Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , OpenVMS users were under heavy pressure from their management to get off a platform nearly at the end of its lifecycle, but they had few viable and cost-effective migration options. Additional reports indicate that over the next five years about 30 percent of OpenVMS users plan to migrate to another platform, reducing the size of the customer base to about 200,000 users by 2003. "We want Digital's customers to compare Digital's product and technology roadmap and financial stability to what Sun has to offer today," said John Shoemaker John Shoemaker (born August 18 1956 in Chillicothe, OH USA) is a former minor league baseball player and current manager of the Double-A Jacksonville Suns. Shoemaker attended Waverly High School and Miami University before he was drafted in the 35th round of the 1977 MLB , vice president and general manager of the Enterprise System and Storage Group at Sun. "Many more applications are available on the Solaris(TM) operating environment than on OpenVMS and Digital UNIX combined. ISVs recognize that Sun provides a more scalable and performance leading product and technology portfolio than Digital and invest their R&D and marketing efforts accordingly." Also available from Sun are platform migration services from SunService division's business unit, Sun Professional Services. SunService provides installation services and ongoing customer-defined support via its SunSpectrum(SM), Sun's matrixed worldwide service offering. Sun also offers Digital customers assistance with Year 2000 solutions and the knowledge that the Sun Solaris operating environment and 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 (TM) technologies are already Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. . Sun's long-term vision, stability, and end-to-end scalable solutions contribute to its strong financial position and customer loyalty. Digital's customers are encouraged to talk to Sun about 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). (R) solutions with a future. U.S. promotional pricing information is available now, and worldwide pricing will be available next week. Customers in North America can get more information on PAQ-Back by calling SunDirect at 1-800/563-5786 or Sun's TeleSales at 1-800/786-0404. Or visit http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/upgrades/index.html on the worldwide web. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ "SUNW") to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, SunSpectrum, The Network Is The Computer and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. -0- Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator or Sun's HotJava. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Larry Lettieri, 650/786-8152 larry.lettieri@Sun.com or Thomas Associates, Inc. Jay Roberts 212/448-4403 jay@nythomaspr.com |
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