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From: rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Here comes the Sun
Message-ID: <9867@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 17:28:01 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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The New York Times had an article today (7/26) saying that Sun Microsystems
is going to start selling it work stations through computer retailers.
The chains they mentioned were Microage Inc. in Tempe, Ariz., Intelligent
Electronics in Exton, Pa., and stores run by Nynex Corporation in New York.
They hope to have 200 dealers carrying their machines in a year.

They also introduced a new computer, the Sparcstation IPC, which is a
color 15.8 MIPS workstation which will sell for $9000 without a
disk drive, and $10000 with a 207 megabyte hard disk.

Of course, it seems to me that this is going to play hell with their
software licensing.  If they are going to sell their workstations like
personal computers, their going to have to sell software for it the same
way.

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