Thursday April 16, 5:22 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Sun Microsystems Awarded SMC Contract by USPS
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced today that its wholly
owned subsidiary, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., has been awarded the Scaleable Midrange Computers (SMC)
contract by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The maximum award value over the life of the contract is $500
million.
The five-year contract will provide the USPS with a full range of products, services and support deployment inclusive of
the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Sun will provide a
state-of-the-art, end-to-end solution including the Sun(TM) Enterprise(TM) line of scalable high-performance servers,
the Solaris(TM) operating environment and Java(TM) technology. In addition, Sun will also provide installation,
maintenance, programing, support personnel and training.
''This is an enormous and exciting win for Sun,'' said John Marselle, President of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. ''The
USPS, because of its important public mission and tremendous processing demands, requires computer solutions which
are highly reliable and able to scale from mid-level to very powerful transaction processors. We are very proud the
USPS selected Sun to fulfill their mission critical needs.''
''We are happy to welcome Sun as a partner in meeting the growing challenges that we face in information systems,''
said John Unekis, USPS SMC Program Manager.
The USPS plans to use Sun to support a variety of applications such as file servers, application servers, database
servers, security servers, and computer servers.
Sun Microsystems Federal's winning team includes SunService, SunSoft and Amdahl Corporation.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, ''The Network Is The Computer(TM),'' has propelled Sun Microsystems,
Inc., (NASDAQ:SUNW - news), 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 WorldWide Web at sun.com.
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