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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: $5000 workstations (???)
Message-ID: <1491@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 90 23:40:30 GMT
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Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <00934B21.5FB703E0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>
>I suspect you will see the SparcStation II come in as the same price point
>as the Sparcstation II, and the SparcStation I will be sold at a 40% lower
>price than originally sold. 
>
>This is the same strategy which DEC is taking with the DECStation 3100/5000
>series; the DECstation 5000 is coming in at around the price point of the
>original 3100 and the 3100 is taking a nose dive in price.

The following quote is from the March 1990 issue of UNIX World, page 20:

  "...  The price for single-user UNIX workstations will drop below
   $3000 this year, says Dataquest analyst Rikki Kirzner, putting further
   pressure on PCs.  Companies most likely to break the $3000 barrier
   include Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, according to Kirzner...."

It seems to me that HP has almost broken the $5000 barrier already.  We
have several HP9000/340s.  The price after educational discount but
including 23% Swedish sales tax is about $5300.  The price ought to be
lower in the US.

Bo