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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

          SUN SELECTED AS ORACLE'S PRIMARY RDBMS DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

SunFLASH Vol 46 #21					        October 1992 
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	   Oracle Purchases Additional Workstations and Servers
	      For Next-Generation RDBMS Product Development


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- October 27, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems 
Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that Oracle Corporation has 
selected the Sun(TM) platform as its primary development platform for its 
next-generation RDBMS software products. Under this agreement, Oracle will 
purchase several hundred SPARCstation(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) systems over 
the next two years. Oracle's decision to purchase Sun systems for 
development gives users running Oracle on Sun the added benefit of having 
the earliest access to new features of the ORACLE RDBMS as well as optimal 
performance for their applications. 

"We have selected Sun as our primary development platform for RDBMS 
development because it offers a robust UNIX(R) development environment, 
support for symmetric multiprocessing and multi-threading, and excellent 
price/performance," said Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle president and chief 
executive officer. "We plan to exploit our mutual strengths in distributed 
client-server computing to develop the next generation of the industry's 
leading RDBMS."

"Our customers demand outstanding distributed database performance," 
said Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems president and chief executive officer. 
"As Oracle's main RDBMS development platform, SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) will give 
our mutual users the ultimate combination of distributed, client-server 
capabilities and performance for UNIX client-server applications. Oracle's 
selection of Sun is still more proof that companies increasingly develop 
their core business applications on Sun."

This agreement underscores the long-term relationship between 
Oracle and SMCC. Besides being customers of one another, the two companies 
work closely together to improve their respective products and to assure 
the best distributed solutions, while offering excellent price/performance 
for our mutual customers.	

In May, Oracle announced that Sun Microsystems will be using its 
Oracle Manufacturing(R) and Oracle Financials(R) applications suites for 
worldwide automation of its manufacturing facilities. 

In June, Oracle and Sun reported the highest-ever Transaction 
Processing Council(TM)-A (TPC-A) Benchmark performance to date on a Sun 
system. The result, 107.28 transactions per second (tpsA), was achieved on 
a Sun SPARCserver 690MP system running ORACLE7.

In August, the two companies announced a joint development agreement 
in which developers from SMCC's technical staff have teamed with Oracle 
developers to enhance and localize the Oracle Financials and Oracle 
Manufacturing applications that are being used throughout Sun Microsystems 
worldwide operations.

This strong relationship also benefits both companies with increased 
sales in both the commercial and federal marketplaces. With the success of 
the SPARCserver 600MP Series, shipping more than 7,800 of these powerful 
servers and making it the leading UNIX multiprocessor server, has increased 
the sales of Oracle products on Sun multiprocessor systems. With Oracle's 
UNIX market leadership, the availability of Oracle products on Sun computers 
has been instrumental in SMCC's move into business computing environments.

Oracle Corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, is 
the world's largest supplier of database software. Oracle develops and 
markets an integrated family of software products for database management; 
tools for CASE, application development, and office automation; and 
application packages for accounting and manufacturing. Oracle software runs 
on PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel 
computers. The company offers its products, along with related consulting, 
education and support services, in 92 countries around the world. Oracle is 
a publicly-held corporation whose shares are traded on NASDAQ/NMS with the 
ticker symbol ORCL. For further information about Oracle, call Oracle 
corporate headquarters at 415/506-7000, or write to Oracle Corporation, 
500 Oracle Parkway, Box 659509, Redwood Shores, CA 94065.

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) is the world's leading 
supplier of open client-server computing solutions. With headquarters in 
Mountain View, Calif., SMCC is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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ORACLE and Oracle Financials are registered trademarks, and ORACLE7, Oracle 
Manufacturing and Oracle Applications are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. 
Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A is a trademark of the 
Transaction Processing Council. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Sun Logo Sun 
Microsystems Computer Corporation and Solaris are trademarks or registered 
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks are trademarks 
including the SCD Compliant Logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of 
SPARC International, Inc. SPARCservers and SPARCstations are licensed 
exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX 
System Laboratories, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned 
herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

Please contact: 
Steve O'Brien, SMCC Commercial Market Development manager at 
(415) 336-5334 for specific marketing-related questions or Leiann Lee, SMCC
Public Relations at (415) 336-0597.
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