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To: E_K_S who wrote (7568)	2/6/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

Yeah, and Apple shipped more Macs than ANYBODY else. Congradulations Apple!!! Why are you patting yourself on the back? Are you aware that Sunw's UNIX workstation revenue shrank year over year? HP passes Sun in workstations By Michael Kanellos NEWS.COM January 28, 1998, 10:15 p.m. PT "Even when the categories are viewed separately, however, the Unix picture is relatively bleak. In 1996, Sun sold 295,518 workstations. While it stayed the market leader, it shipped approximately 10,000 fewer workstations in 1997 for a decline of 3.3 percent."

To: E_K_S who wrote (7568)	2/6/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Dan Good	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Although we surpassed HP on th UNIX workstations, we were behind overall. Our workstations are all UNIX and account for 285.5k. While HP's 108k account for only about 1/3 of their workstation business. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co <HWP.N>. leaped past Sun Microsystems Inc <SUNW.O>. and became the leading company in the $15.8 billion workstation market in1997, according to data from International Data Corp. onWednesday. The workstation market share data combines both UNIX-based workstations and personal workstations running Microsoft Corp's <MSFT.O> Windows NT operating system. In recent quarters, Windows NT personal workstations have been growing faster than UNIX-based workstations. IDC said that in 1997, H-P had total workstation shipments of 330,559 units and a unit growth rate of 43 percent. Sun Microsystems, formerly the market leader, shipped 285,815 units in 1997 and its workstation sales declined 3.3 percent in unit terms. H-P also surpassed Compaq Computer Corp. <CPQ.N> in the personal workstation market, by shipping 222,394 units in 1997, with a 17.2 percent market share of the personal workstation segment. Compaq shipped a total of 199,700 units in 1997. A year ago, H-P was the number two workstation vendor behind Sun, with Digital Equipment Corp. number three. Dan