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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

   SMCC And Gain Technology Sign Multimedia Training Agreement

SunFLASH Vol 40 #8					          April 1992 
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     SMCC Worldwide Customer Support, Gain Technology Sign
                 Multimedia Licensing Agreement

   Technology Will Be Used for Customer Productivity Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 6, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) Worldwide Customer Support and Gain Technology,
Inc., have signed a licensing agreement under which SMCC will develop
and distribute interactive multimedia training software based on Gain's
object-oriented hypermedia technology.

The new software will combine text, graphics, sound and animation to
give users instant on-line information on how to use Sun(TM) hardware
and software products.  This leads to significant time savings and
increased user productivity.

Under the agreement, SMCC's Worldwide Customer Support organization
will develop and distribute the programs worldwide.  The first of
several products incorporating Gain's technology will be introduced
this summer.

"We formed this partnership both to advance multimedia technology and
to arm our customers with a means of mastering our workstations quickly
and visually, allowing them to cut through masses of conventional
documentation," said Bill Cote, SMCC vice president of worldwide
customer support.  "Performance-based instructional multimedia is part
of our strategy to provide customers with the highest level of on-line
support in the workstation market."

"This is a major advance in multimedia technology to solve business
problems on a large scale," said Thomas Siebel, Gain chief executive
officer.  "It makes complex distributed workstation applications easy
to use and demonstrates that multimedia will finally have a significant
impact on the economics of information processing."

SMCC's customer support organization and Gain first teamed up in 1991
under a technology agreement that gave SMCC early access to Gain's
pre-released multimedia software technology.  Employing an object-based
hypermedia architecture that allows developers to reuse blocks of code
to easily and quickly create software programs, Gain's technology
enables developers to write robust multimedia applications that combine
text, images, graphics, animation, audio and SQL databases.

Founded in 1989, Gain Technology develops and markets the industry's
leading multimedia application development environment for large,
commercial, mission-critical application projects designed to be
delivered to multiple users across distributed, heterogeneous computer
networks.  Gain is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is
entirely owned by its 80 employees.


SMCC Educational Services contact: 	Margaret Bloom  (408) 276-1016

Press contacts:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  	Kim Miller  	(415) 336-7583
Gain Technology, Inc.  		Bob Runge  	(415) 855-1736
Miller Communications 		Mary McGregor  	(415) 962-9550

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