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To: Eddie Kim who wrote (45821)	6/1/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

As opposed to a PC, Workstations have traditionally been machines optimized for high performance graphics or compute intensive applications like electronic design, modeling, etc. They tend to have special display systems, bus designs which allow rapid transfer of data between disk, memory and display, and a 'no-compromise' design philosophy. In the last few years a class of NT capable machines based on Intel technology has made inroads into the traditionally high price specialty Unix workstation market. These boxes, like the big-ticket Unix boxes, use specialized graphics, memory and disk system designs, but have a lot of components in common with the volume PC lines so overall costs are lower. Currently the leaders in this market are CPQ, Dell and HP, with HP eating its own high end Unix workstation business to some extent. These vendors are taking share from the low end of the Sun, HP, and SGI workstation market, but the Intel based NT workstations have not yet done any major damage to the high end of the workstation business, which continues to grow (especially for Sun). As more workstation software gets ported to NT, the Intel based servers will expand their reach into the high end market. This is a fast growing, high margin segment.