Hewlett plans more-powerful workstations
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Hewlett-Packard Co is planning to release three fast new workstations in the near future. Some analysts believe that the product offering is just what is needed to reverse the manufacturer's fortunes and reassert it once again as the market leader. The new machines are reported to be capable of operating at 50 million instructions per second and are based on the company's own reduced instruction-set computing microprocessors. HP's acquisition of workstation manufacturer Apollo Computer Inc in 1989 made the company the number one workstation vendor, but HP has failed to keep up with competitors' offerings, particularly in RISC-based workstations. The company has fallen to number two behind Sun Microsystems Inc. Although the new offerings are seen as a boost for HP, the problems it inherited with its acquisition of Apollo will not go away. Apollo and HP workstations use different operating systems and although there are plans to merge the two, the confusion surrounding the dual systems will certainly not help sales of the new products.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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Hewlett-Packard to unveil workstations combining its own and Apollo's lines
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Hewlett-Packard Co is introducing a new workstation that combines its own product line with that of 1989 acquisition Apollo Computer Inc. The new workstation is expected to be released in late summer of 1990, is based on Motorola's 68040 microprocessor and will start at $8,990. A version of the workstation based on Motorola's 68030 will sell for $4,990. Hewlett-Packard needs to quickly merge its product line with that of Apollo's to make the $476.4 million acquisition a success. HP's acquisition of Apollo in May 1989 put it on the top of the $7 billion workstation market, but competition from Sun Microsystems Inc, IBM and DEC is expected to increase.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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Sun's success doubly sweet for designer
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Andreas Bechtolsheim, 34, of Sun Microsystems Inc, is responsible for bringing the profitable Sun Microsystems Sparcstation workstation family to the market. Sun is expected to sell 87,000 Sun Microsystems Sparcstations in 1990, which represents nearly 75 percent of the company's total unit sales of computers. Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun, together with with Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy, and Bechtolsheim designed Sun's first computer. Bechtolsheim's early work and the difficulties he encountered in building Sparcstation are described.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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