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...will not have the workstation market all to itself. Last week a major competitor, Hewlett-Packard, said it had reached an agreement to buy workstation pioneer Apollo for $476 million. The merger will give Hewlett- Packard more than 30% of the workstation market, supplanting Sun (28%) as the top manufacturer. But the workstation market is expected to grow some 44% this year, to nearly $6 billion, leaving plenty of room for expansion. Says William Joy, Sun's vice president of research and development: "The action is on the desktop. That's where most of the people...
Until recently, workstations were arcane tools employed mainly by engineers and scientists. But price reductions and technological changes have made the computers more practical for many other uses, such as financial trading and desktop publishing. Says Mark Tolliver, workstation marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard: "When people see all the whizzy stuff these machines can do, they want to try them out." Most workstations now use a standardized internal operating system known as Unix (which explains why the trade show is called UniForum). The increasing prevalence of Unix in the computer industry makes it easier for workstations made by different manufacturers...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...
...policy, which will take effect by July 1, 1989, includes more than 100 companies and corporations, among them Gillette, Bristol-Meyers, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson...
...work force, and a culture that confers high status on manufacturers and engineers. But a little Japanese-style teamwork, in which companies pool their resources on long-term research, could do wonders in the U.S. "The Japanese don't share all their secrets either," says John Young, CEO of Hewlett-Packard. "They get people to develop the basic technology, and then they go home and build like crazy...