New Sun Microsystems Inc subsidiary SunSoft has been busy making alliances in Japan: president Ed Zander, recently in Japan for the official announcement of OEM tie-ups with Toshiba Corp and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co on their Sparc-based hardware, has announced Solaris 1.0 for Japanese, Chinese and Korean language environments; SunSoft plans to set up an office in Japan by March and strengthen its sales channels for Solaris 1.0, which will be supplied on one compact disk containing SunOS 4.1, Open Windows Version 2 and Open Network Computing for network environments; the price for the compact disk will be roughly $1,400; an application development environment and localised graphical user-interface will follow; the Intel-based Solaris 2.0 is currently the subject of negotiations with Japanese personal computer makers; Japanese personal computer company ASCII Corp is to be the sales channel for Intel Solaris 2.0; SunSoft subsidiaries in Taiwan and Korea are to be set up this year.
