joel@sundc.UUCP (Joel McClung - Federal TS Mgr Sun Washington DC) (09/07/88)
----- Begin Included Message ----- From sun!relations!press Tue Sep 6 21:59:13 1988 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 88 17:04:12 PDT From: sun!relations!press Confirmed-By: Mail Confirm Daemon on Mailhost To: relations!allsun Subject: SUN FLASH! (Folio) -+This message has been approved for distribution to this alias+- The following announcement was made today: SUN MICROSYSTEMS ACQUIRES FOLIO, INC. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --September 6, 1988--Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that it has acquired Folio, Inc., a private company engaged in the development and sale of typographic and imaging technologies for use in electronic publishing. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Folio supplies intelligent font-scaling technology, a key component in the development of electronic publishing applications. This technology is essential for creating scalable fonts with graphic arts quality for a wide variety of raster output devices, including display screens, printers and electronic typesetters. Folio products are the first to automate this time-consuming process. "Folio technology represents a breakthrough because it accepts any font format," said Scott McNealy, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems. "This allows the user to buy from multiple sources and take advantage of the wide variety of type design available around the world. Folio products are in line with Sun's open computing philosophy." Folio's TypeMaker(TM) and TypeScaler(TM) software packages allow computer and peripheral manufacturers, system integrators, and application software developers to produce and use a single set of fonts across a variety of output devices--a key component in providing a device-independent graphics environment. The Folio products reinforce Sun's commitment to the electronic publishing and presentation graphics markets, which demand high-quality scalable type faces. Folio, founded in 1987, will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary and will continue to license its products directly. Both Folio and Sun are located in Mountain View, Calif.