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To: blankmind who wrote (22031)	5/4/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 74651

Could this be expansion of MSFT desktop ? I've been commenting on the SUNW thread for a while about seeing the end of proprietary UNIX workstation iron on the desktop in favour the new price/performance leader (the PC'). This could be an nice expansion for MSFT; taking over the UNIX workstation market. news.com, Brooke Croothers writes: Dell cuts workstation prices news.com "Dell has risen quickly to become one of the top workstation suppliers worldwide. Until about three years ago, workstations were pricey machines--often costing as much as $10,000 or more--running almost exclusively on the Unix operating system and RISC processors. Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM dominated this market with their proprietary offerings. But Windows-Intel technology has driven down the cost of workstations to well below $2,000 in some cases. "