Sun's expanded alliances with Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase set the stage for our emergence as the number one database platform. Sun opens research and development center in France. Manufacturing plant opens in Scotland. More than half a million systems shipped to date. Sun unveils Solaris TM 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symetric multiprocessing.
Operations begin in Latin America.
Sun ships more multiprocessing UNIX servers in a single year than any other vendor shipped in its history. Sun makes its debut on the Fortune 500. Revolutionary computerized retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco uses structural analysis with 3-D animation on Sun TM workstations and servers to dramatically reduce costs while improving public safety. Java technology enables developers to write applications once to run on any computer. Online SM provides technical support via the Internet.