Meantime Sun Microsystems Computer Corp announced in Peking on Friday that its Sparc Technology Business has licensed a high-volume microSparc-based board design to Beijing Huasun Computer Co, which is said to have 21% of the Chinese workstation market. It is a joint venture of the Sixth Research Institute of the Ministry of Electronics China and Frobal Pte Ltd of Singapore. The technology that used by Sun in the Sparcstation LX, and this is said to be the first time a Chinese company has licensed this level of technology from the US. Huasun plans to produce ruggedised workstations for factory floor and other industrial applications such as oil exploration.
