Sun Microsystems Inc is making a concerted effort to establish itself in the former Eastern bloc countries – in January it set up an office in Poland, followed by another in Moscow in June, and it has now signed up its first distributor in Estonia. Microlink A/S is the leading distributor of information technology in the country and dominates the local personal computer market with its own locally manufactured kit. Sun will support Microlink through its new regional headquarters for the Nordic and Baltic states in Stockholm, Sweden because of the close business and geo-political affinity between the two regions. The two companies have just won a contract with The Central Bank of Estonia to supply an unspecified number of Sparcstations and servers running the Solaris operating system, as the basis of an inter-banking message system. Financial terms were not disclosed.
