Sun Microsystems Inc last week launched its SunSelect and SunConnect satellites in Europe, using existing offices in the UK and France as their bases. Billerica, Massachusetts-based SunSelect, which concentrates on personal computer and Unix integration, will run its European operations from Bagshot, Surrey in the UK by David Ballantine. Its product focus is the SunPC product line, combining personal computer emulation technology from Insignia Solutions Ltd with 80486 S-bus accelerator boards to give acceptable Windows performance on a Sparcstation, and the recently unveiled version 4.0 of PC-NFS, which Sun claims now holds a larger slice of the personal computer networking market than Banyan Systems Inc’s Vines. A third strand to the business is NetWare SunLink, Sun’s implementation of Portable NetWare for the Sparc. SunSelect’s UK distributor is Unipalm Ltd, Cambridge. SunConnect, which will be run from both Bagshot and Paris, with a presence in Germany by year-end, concentrates on Open Systems Interconnection services, network management with SunNet Manager version 2.0 and other local and wide area network tools and services. New European network management partners include Arche Communication SA and Grapheal SA in France, Dornier AG in Germany, and MicroMuse Ltd in the UK.
