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SUN INTRODUCES JAPANESE LANGUAGE OPENWINDOWS Endorsed by Toshiba, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, 55 Others Includes First Toolkit to Conform to XIM TOKYO — August 29, 1990 — Sun Microsystems today introduced a version of its OpenWindows" application development environment adapted for the Japanese language, giving software developers an easy-to-use, open solution for porting applica- TM tions to Japanese. The new Japanese OpenWindows includes the OPEN LOOK , the Xll/NeWS" window system, DeskSet"productivity tools and the XView" toolkit. Sun also unveiled a Japanese version of its OpenWi- ndows Developer's Guide, a tool that automatically generates OPEN LOOK code, thereby saving days of development time.

Japanese OpenWindows already has considerable momentum, having been endorsed by 58 software vendors and other firms that serve that market, such as Toshiba, Fujitsu and Fuji Xerox. Many of these companies plan to develop products with Japanese OpenWindows. With this new version of OpenWindows, 2,800 applications written for Sun can easily be localized for the Japanese market. "Our new Japanese development environment is very important to this market," said Dr. Kohei Amo, CEO

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and president of Nihon Sun and vice president of Sun Microsystems. "Since Sun sys-

tems are the best-selling UNIX workstations in Japan, developers have a large poten- tial software market. Now they can quickly, easily port popular applications such as spreadsheets, electronic publishing software, database applications and many other pro-

ducts."

Special Features

Japanese OpenWindows is based on the just-introduced OpenWindows Version 2, which features OPEN LOOK in 3-D. Japanese OpenWindows is the only product that

allows users to switch back and forth between English and Japanese within an applica- tion by simply pointing the cursor and clicking a button on a mouse.

Japanese XView, which developers use to create OPEN LOOK applications, is

the first toolkit to conform to the X Input Method (XIM) specification from the X

Consortium. XIM is the proposed vehicle for internationalizing the X Window Sys-

tem. By conforming with XIM, Japanese XView will preserve a developer's invest-

ment, since the toolkit will be based on an industry standard.

Sun intends to donate its Japanese OPEN LOOK toolkit to the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, creators of the . The X Consortium, spon- sored by MIT, will then offer Japanese XView for free. "We believe these efforts involving Japanese XView will accelerate its adoption as the industry leader in Japan,"

said Dr. Amo.

XView is a very portable toolkit, thus the new Japanese version enables develop-

ers to create applications in Japanese for any high-performance computer system that uses the X Window System For example, XView toolkits in English will be available

for UNIX systems made by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, DEC and Apple, while a VMS

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year. " version will also be introduced this

Availability

Early versions of Japanese OpenWindows and Developer's Guide will be avail- able for developers in October, with the final release date to be announced later. Dis- tributed first in the Japanese market, the products will be introduced worldwide in a future release. The X Consortium will being offering Japanese XViewfor free in the

first quarter of 1991.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing systems, including profes- sional workstations, servers and UNIX operating system and productivity software.

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OpenWindows, Xll/NeWS and XView are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. OPEN LOOK and UNIX are registered trademarks of UNIX Systems Laboratory, Inc. All other products or services mentioned in this document are identified by the trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organi- zations.