Sun, Matsushita in Licensing Pact: Sun Microsystems...
From Times Staff and Wire reports
Sun, Matsushita in Licensing Pact: Sun Microsystems said Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan has agreed to license Sun’s SPARC computer chip design and software and will also purchase $150 million of Sun workstations over the next three years. Matsushita thus joins a growing list of companies that plan to market “clones” of Sun’s popular computer workstations. Matsushita will also use the SPARC chip in some of its other products.
