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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

         EO Selects Sitka's Mobile Networking Solution For New
                     Line Of Personal Communicators

SunFLASH Vol 47 #12					       November 1992 
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   Built-in Local Area Networking from Sitka Will Connect EO Personal
       Communicators to Enterprise and Desktop Computer Resources


ALAMEDA, Calif., November 4, 1992 -- Sitka Corporation and EO, Inc.
announced today a licensing agreement that will enable the world's
first "personal communicators" to transparently share resources and
information on local area networks.  Sitka's mobile networking
products, PenTOPS(tm) and PenCentral(tm), will be bundled with EO's
Personal Communicator 440 and 880, devices that combine phone,
computer, fax and electronic mail capabilities in one mobile platform.

With Sitka's PenTOPS and PenCentral, users will extend the EO Personal
Communicator's communication and computing capabilities by having
access to all network resources, including shared files, network
printers, CD-ROM, and network applications, such as corporate databases
and groupware.

"EO has combined leading-edge technologies in microelectronics and
wireless communications to provide a revolutionary way to communicate
anyplace, anytime," said Alain Rossmann, CEO of EO, Inc.  "With Sitka's
mobile networking solution, EO's personal communicators can also easily
make connections 'on the go' to local area networks and desktop
computers."

Based on Sitka's cross-platform, peer-to-peer networking architecture,
PenTOPS client software was developed specifically for mobile computing
environments and is tightly integrated with easy-to-use, gesture-based
commands.  PenTOPS has been ported to the EO platform and is built into
the ROM of every EO personal communicator so that users easily exploit
its network and desktop connectivity capabilities.

PenTOPS is used in conjunction with Sitka's PenCentral server software,
which allows PenTOPS clients to connect to DOS-based personal computers
via serial port or modem.  With PenCentral, multiple PenTOPS clients
can make transparent connections to all drives and printers on the
PenCentral server as well as gateway connections to network resources,
including those on NetWare(r) and LAN Manager(r) networks.  Sitka's
PenTOPS and PenCentral connectivity solutions have been adopted by
leaders in the mobile computing industry, including IBM and GO
Corporation.

"There is an unfulfilled demand from travelling professionals, field
representatives and other mobile workers to better integrate their
communications and computing needs into the existing business
environment," said Deborah Triant, president and CEO of Sitka.  "With
PenTOPS and PenCentral, EO's personal communicators will help mobile
professionals improve productivity while providing access to the
network resources which are crucial to today's businesses."

Sitka Corporation, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Owned Business, was
founded in 1984 and pioneered the market for cross-platform,
peer-to-peer networking products.  The company markets 10NET(r),
MacTOPS(tm), DosTOPS(tm), SunTOPS(tm), PenCentral(tm) and PenTOPS(tm)
software which lets users easily share resources among different
hardware platforms and operating systems.  Headquartered in Alameda,
California, Sitka's products are available in 7 languages and 42
countries worldwide.

EO, Inc., founded in 1991, designs, builds and markets personal
communicators:  a new class of products which are revolutionizing
person-to-person communications.  An integral part of EO's strategy is
its partnerships with AT&T, Matsushita, and Marubeni.  EO's partners
contribute technical know-how and funding that is key to realizing a
shared vision that personal communicators will have as much impact on
person-to-person communications as the telephone had in the early
1900's.  In addition to EO's industrial partners,  Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and Byers, a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm,
is an investor in the privately-held corporation.  EO employs
approximately ninety people in Mountain View and European Office in
Cambridge, England.

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Sitka is a registered trademark  of Sitka Corporation, A Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  - Owned Business.  SitkaTOPS, MacTOPS, DosTOPS,
SunTOPS, PenTOPS, PenCentral and OpenTOPS are trademarks of Sitka
Corporation.  10NET is a registered trademark of Tiara Computer
Systems, Inc.  All other  brand and product names are trademarks  or
registered trademarks of their respective  holders.


Contact:

Rick Brown, Sitka Corporation (510) 769-2679

Mark Smotroff/Sharon Miller, Access Public Relations (415) 904-7070



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