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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
>    
>    Java goes to set-top boxes - Jan. 9, 1998
>    
>    Sun cross-pollinates Intel - Dec. 16, 1998
>    
>    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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