MACINTOSH APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT 2.0 NOW AVAILABLE FOR SOLARIS/SPARC USERS

Newest Version of Emulation Technology
Offers Macintosh Environment to Solaris 2.x Customers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- March 14, 1995 -- Furthering its commitment to provide Solaris(R) users with their choice of applications, SunSoft, Inc., in conjunction with Apple Computer, Inc., today announced the availability of Macintosh(R) Application Environment(TM) (MAE) 2.0. MAE 2.0 is emulation software that allows users to run Macintosh applications with significant interoperability between UNIX (R)and Mac(TM)OS environemtns on SPARC-based platforms. A product of Apple Computer, Inc., MAE 2.0 offers significant performance and networking enhancements, including support for AppleTalk(R), MacTCP(R), and improved support for NFS(R).

MAE 2.0, which emulates a Macintosh on a SPARC workstation running Solaris 2.3 or 2.4, provides customers with the full Macintosh environment in an X window, including Finder(TM) functionality. In addition, MAE 2.0 supports AppleTalk, allowing for easy MAE-to-Macintosh networking, and MacTCP, which allows access to Internet and TCP/IP-based applications.

MAE 2.0 allows Solaris/SPARC customers to run most Macintosh applications in the Solaris environment. Together, Solaris and MAE 2.0 provide seamless integration between UNIX and Macintosh environments, with benefits such as access to network devices and printers, cut and paste of text and graphics between Solaris and Macintosh applications, and the ability to drag and drop files to new directories or folders.

"MAE 2.0 is one more successful step forward in SunSoft's mission to provide users with a universal desktop," said Dave Power, vice president and general manager of SunSoft's PC Desktop Integration Products. "Just as Wabi, our breakthrough translation software technology, enables the most popular Windows applications to run at high performance levels on UNIX-based workstations and servers, MAE 2.0 permits our Solaris 2.x customers to access Macintosh applications."

Distribution, Availability and Pricing Information

MAE 2.0 will be available from Apple's extensive worldwide network of authorized resellers and distributors. To order MAE 2.0, users within within the United States can contact Apple at 1-800-769-2775, extension 7675 (code: SUN1). For further information on MAE, users can access the MAE web site at http://www.mae.apple.com or Apple's ftp site at ftp.support .apple.com (/pub/mae/directory). For further information about SunSoft's family of PC Destop Integration products, users can visit the PCDI web site at http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/Products/PC-Integration products/.

SunSoft, Inc.

SunSoft, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., with offices worldwide. SunSoft's charter is to design, market, sell and support the industry's highest-quality software environment to enable businesses to gain a competitive advantage through information systems. SunSoft delivers a suite of solutions that easily and cost-effectively connect, integrate and manage large enterprise environments. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide.
1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun, the Sun logo, SunSoft, Wabi and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SDC compliant logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. Products bearing the SPARC trademark are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.