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To: dmf who wrote (7405)	1/29/1998 4:08:00 AM
From: Kashish King	of 64865

HP moves to No. 1 in workstations: Hope someone will give me a Sun perspective. Well, there are a couple of perspectives, here's one: HP revenues: 500 million Sun revenues: 9,200 million However, than doesn't specifically address workstation sales. In fact, the language gods are still backlogged and they have punted on several important terms: minicomputer was never really defined (anybody who tells you otherwise is talking through their hat or simply regurgitating material from a self-appointed definer of terms ) and workstation is still a word-in-progress. The point being, if you want to count desktop computers running NT versus Windows95 then HP's unit sales have exceeded Sun's; then again, so has CompUSA and Dell Computer. The not-so-clever concatenation of UNIX and NT systems allows wordprocessors running NT to be lumped into workstation sales. Here's another perspective: HP: down a half. SUNW up a buck and a half. The future of Sun's desktop offerings lies with Java applications and components. If they fail to materialize it will have see a material failure in Sun. The chances of Java failing are precisely zero.

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