Compaq aims to rock Unix industry

CobraBoy! (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 03:47:03 -0700


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-> SunWorld: The Unix Professional's Power Tool
-> http://www.sunworld.com
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-> HOT NEWS FROM SUNWORLD
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-> "On June 9th there was an earthquake in the Unix workstation world.
-> Its epicenter was in Houston." So said Compaq's full-page newspaper
-> ad in promotion of the company's new line of Windows NT-based
-> workstations.
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-> As it turns out, Compaq may have been just a bit overeager in
-> proclaiming performance superiority over its Unix workstation
-> rivals. For the announcement, Compaq released some performance
-> numbers that compared its new systems with a slew of Unix
-> workstations, including Sun's Ultra 2. Compaq's workstations came
-> out on top. But something smelled fishy. The real story, of course,
-> was in the fine print.
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-> Go to Eye on the Competition to learn about these new workstations
-> and find out why they "outperformed" their Unix competitors. There's
-> also a story on the workstation market's 30 percent growth in
-> just the first quarter this year.
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-> http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-06-1997/swol-06-eyeoncomp.html
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-> Best,
-> Carolyn Wong
-> Senior Editor
-> SunWorld
-> http://www.sunworld.com
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