Microsystems, Metrodata tie up

Microsystems, Metrodata tie up

JAKARTA (JP): Sun Microsystems Inc of Singapore announced on
Wednesday its plan to form a joint venture with PT e-
Metrodata.Com to distribute its products and services in
Indonesia.

In the new US$5 million company to be called PT Sunmicrosystem
Indonesia, Singapore's leading provider of industrial hardware
and software has a 49 percent equity while e-Metrodata, a
subsidiary of publicly listed PT Metrodata Electronic, controls
the rest.

The new joint venture is expected to be formed in January and
begin operation in the first quarter of 2001, the two companies
said in a joint statement.

Sunmicrosystem Indonesia will also actively market Sun
Microsystems' e-commerce and networking solutions.

Vice president of Sun's Asia South Lionel Lim said that
Indonesia and its 210 million people offered not only a
potentially lucrative market, but also a source of skilled
workers for the dotcom industry.

The joint venture strengthens an existing arrangement because
Metrodata Electronics has been Sun's principal distributor of
hardware and software solutions in Indonesia since 1990. (02)