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To: BrickHouse who wrote (8702)	3/31/1998 9:24:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 64865

Sun's Starfire Leads Again, Delivers Record Performance and Scalability for Baan Business Applications; Sun Benchmark Supports Largest Number of Baan Users On Any Platform BusinessWire, Tuesday, March 31, 1998 at 08:16 PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) today announced that its Sun(TM) Enterprise(TM) 10000 (also known as Starfire(TM)) server has captured the performance lead for The Baan Company's (NASDAQ:BAANF)(ASE:BAAN) suite of enterprise business applications. A single 40 CPU Starfire system supported 3,232 Baan Reference Users (BRUs) and was certified by Baan at Sun's Enterprise Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif. Additionally, a 36 CPU Starfire server configured for a client/server environment posted another record by supporting 4,590 BRUs -- the most BRUs supported by any hardware platform. These results demonstrate that Baan running on Sun's Starfire server gives customers a more efficient means of managing their business-critical applications, which is important to large enterprise customers worldwide. This benchmark, tested in both a host mode and client-server configuration, supports up to three times more users than Sun's closest competitor.