Resellers select Sun Workstations as products of the year; SPARCstation family honored by both computer reseller news and VARBusiness.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1995--Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC SMCC - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. ) today announced that its innovative SPARCstation family of workstations was awarded 1994 Product of the Year honors in separate reader polls conducted by Computer Reseller News and VARBusiness. VARs and other readers surveyed by each publication noted Sun's leading technology innovation in design and performance as one of the primary reasons for their enthusiastic support of the SPARCstation line -- whose popularity was fueled by last year's introduction of the SPARCstation 5 and SPARCstation 20 desktop families. The Computer Reseller News Vision Awards are an annual review of thousands of resellers to determine the most successful products used by resellers to configure solutions in 26 categories. VARBusiness' Products of the Year award is based on nearly 2,300 telephone interviews of VARs to determine the best products each year in 18 product categories. "What set the winners of VARBusiness' Products of the Year award apart is their leadership in product design and their initiative to include features that enhance the products' quality, functionality and that hard-to-define element -- value," said Rich March, editor, VARBusiness. "These awards and our continued volume leadership in the 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). desktop market are clear signs that Sun is developing products that address the needs of our VARs and customers," said Neil Knox, SMCC's vice president of the U.S. Reseller channel. SMCC offers the best line-up of UNIX workstations in the industry -- from the mid-range SPARCstation 4 to the high-end SPARCstation 20 Model 712. There are currently over 250,000 SPARCstation 10s and 20s installed worldwide. With the SPARCstation 5, SMCC set a new industry installed based record by shipping more than 100,000 systems in just nine months, SMCC's networked desktop workstations lead the industry in price-performance, are binary compatible (1) Refers to any data, hardware or software structure (data file, machine code, instruction set, etc.) in binary form that is 100% identical to another. See binary compare. with 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 applications and are designed for easy installation of future SPARC CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. upgrades. Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC), the world's top supplier of open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. solutions, is part of Sun Microsystems Inc. Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the Computer," SMCC's SPARC/Solaris workstation and server family leads the UNIX market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain View. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, The Network is the Computer, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. All SPARC 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. SPARCstation is licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on 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. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic. 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 Computer Co., Mountain View Lisa Ganier, 415/336-5637 Burson Marsteller Mark Richardson, 415/764-1365 |
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