Rather easier to win these things than to get paid for them, but Sun Microsystems Inc has been chosen as the network computing supplier to the Ministry of Fuel & Energy of the Russian Federation in a project with an investment potential as high as $ 50m to $200m over a five-year period. Sun is assisting the Ministry in building a multi-Terabyte distributed petroleum database system located at a main site in Moscow and at various regional oil centers across the Commonwealth of Independent States ; Ultra Enterprise servers, Sparcstation and Sparcserver systems will be used to design and run the system using database software from Sybase Inc.
