Sun Technology Enterprises Japan now has Japanese versions of 12 SunPro tools. Sales are going through Nippon Sun Microsystems sales channels, which include Fujitsu Ltd, Toshiba Corp, CTC, Nippon Unisys Kaisha, Fuji Xerox Ltd, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Nippon Steel Corp. Director of marketing from SunPro, Paul Henderson and Masatoshi Tanaka, general manager of Sun Technology Enterprises Japan presented the new products, which include the Workshop integrated tools suite; Sparcworks/iMPact (J), Sun’s first multithreaded development tools for multiprocessor systems; and a new version of Sparcworks Development Tools (J), version 3, for developing in C, C++, Fortran and Pascal. Team development can be supported with Sparcworks/TeamWare, which simplifies the code management task. These products are based on new compiler technology, which Sun claims provides 30% to 40% faster compilations for C and Fortran, while the C++ compiler triples previous compile speeds. Japanese prices for the new products range from $5,000 through $7,250 for the WorkShop products; down to $1,548 and $2,240 yen for the compiler products.
