Sun Microsystems Awarded Multiple NASA SEWP II Contracts; Wins in Software Development and CAE/CAD Workstation Categories.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1996--Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., has been awarded two contracts by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. with a value expected to exceed $100 million. Under the Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (SEWP SEWP Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement (NASA) SEWP Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (NASA) SEWP Science and Engineering Workforce Project II) contract, Sun Microsystems Federal was awarded contracts for software development (Class 6) and CAE/CAD electronic circuit design workstations (Class 1). Based on the evaluated quantities listed in the SEWP II solicitation, this win represents approximately 40 percent of the estimated 34,000 workstations projected over the life of the contract. The right to purchase equipment under these contracts is open to all federal agencies with no restrictions on the amount of non-NASA purchases. SEWP II comes after NASA's earlier SEWP I, under which Sun Microsystems Federal received one of nine contracts awarded in 1993. "SEWP I has been an extremely successful contract vehicle for both NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. and Sun," said John Marselle, president of Sun Microsystems Federal. "We are particularly pleased that Sun(TM) products will continue to be available to all NASA and other federal government users through both of our NASA SEWP II contracts." Sun Federal will provide NASA with software development tools, 64-bit Sun Ultra(TM) workstations, servers and enterprise systems running the Solaris(TM) operating environment, as well as products based on Sun's Java(TM) platform for the Internet. These products will be used by NASA for software engineering, full life-cycle software development and maintenance, proof-of-concept and prototype development, client application development and other XPG4 UNIX-based development efforts. These workstations also will support NASA in the development of custom and semi-custom very-large-scale integration (VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. ) chip designs and for the designing, routing and placing of printed circuit board layouts. Specific functions include schematic capture, timing tests, simulations, route and place, and test and verification of prototype physical components. Sun Microsystems Federal's winning team includes SunService, fulfilling the service requirement of the award, and SunSoft, providing the Solaris operating environment and software development products. With annual revenues of more than $7 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. 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 Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Ultra and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. 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 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 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 Company, Ltd. 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 Federal Deana Alvy, 703/204-4135 deana.alvy@east.sun.com or Burson Marsteller for Sun Jane Rauckhorst, 212/614-4880 jane_rauckhorst@bm.com |
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