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Sun to fight MS w/ new workstations [CNN]
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> New Unix workstations, lower pricing seen as bulwark against Microsoft
> NT
>
> January 12, 1998: 1:11 p.m. ET
>
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>
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>
> More related sites... PALO ALTO, Calif.(Reuters) - Sun Microsystems
> Inc. will launch a new line of workstations Tuesday, aiming to
> challenge its rivals and blunt the spread into markets for
> high-powered desktop computers used by engineers of PCs using
> Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT.
> [INLINE] The new workstations are the result of a two-year effort by
> Sun to design products that greatly reduce the cost of the computers
> used by power-hungry engineers, while still providing the blistering
> performance they demand.
> [INLINE] "This is really big. We think we can create an alternative to
> [PCs running] NT," Ed Zander, president of Sun Microsystems Computer
> Co., the company's largest division, said in an interview with Reuters
> ahead of the announcement.
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