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- The Florida SunFlash
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- SMCC CREATES NEW INTEGRATION SERVICE
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- SunFLASH Vol 47 #21 November 1992
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- November 10, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
- Corporation (SMCC) today announced it has created a new group focused
- on helping its worldwide customers implement open client-server
- solutions that include the SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) platform. Called
- SunIntegration Services(SM), it will assist customers in planning and
- executing major technology transformations, select the best integrators
- and technology partners for customers' needs, and sometimes act as a
- project manager or prime contractor.
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- SunIntegration Services will partner with world-class systems
- integrators and technology vendors -- such as GE Information Systems,
- Andersen Consulting, SAIC, SynOptics, Cabletron, Cambridge Technology
- Partners, AT&T and Cap Gemini Sogeti -- on a per-project basis. In the
- SMCC model, the unique expertise of each vendor is optimized.
-
- SunIntegration Services was created as a result of significant customer
- demand. In fact, SMCC is currently responding to several requests for
- proposals to act as a prime contractor on projects for customers in
- financial services, telecommunications and the automobile industry,
- even though the new group will not begin formal operation until
- January.
-
- "There's often a gap between a company's desire to rightsize and its
- ability to actually get there," said Scott McNealy, president and CEO
- of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Our knowledge of client-server computing
- and our own successful efforts in rightsizing are two of the reasons
- we've received so many requests to help customers design and implement
- rightsizing solutions."
-
- The new group, together with its partners, will provide specialized
- knowledge in business process reengineering; enterprise-wide network
- integration and management; UNIX(R); open systems; software
- development, implementation and support; Sun(TM) product customization;
- and mainframe to client-server application migration.
-
- SunIntegration Services will focus on SMCC markets with a high need for
- integration services, which include telecommunications, manufacturing,
- oil and gas, banking and finance, retail and transportation.
-
- The new group will initially include 50 professionals from key
- technology areas within Sun Microsystems who have extensive experience
- in the application of client-server technology. In the future, the
- SunIntegration staff will be augmented with senior consultants skilled
- in dealing with corporate executives and helping them formulate and
- manage their technology architectures.
-
- Leon Williams, a Sun Microsystems employee and 25-year computer
- industry veteran, has been named vice president of the new group. He
- will report to Joe Roebuck, vice president of SMCC's Worldwide Field
- Operations. Williams is vice president of information resources in
- SMCC, where he helped rightsize the company's U.S., European and
- Pacific Rim computer systems. He will continue in this position. He
- has been president and CEO of TriStar Market Data, Inc, MicroPro
- International Inc., and Monchik-Weber Corporation Inc., a financial
- services industry system integration and services firm. He was also
- senior vice president and chief technology officer at McGraw-Hill,
- Inc.
-
- 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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