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Squeak! - Who's Eating Whom in the Storage Market?
article:-the Rise and Fall of the SPARC Workstation Market

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View from the Hill Re: Desktop SPARC systems

In the early 1990's you'd be surprised how many companies marketed SPARC workstations. The large number of market entrants was fuelled by business plans which suggested that this market would be like the PC market, with no single company getting more than 10% market share.

However, Sun Microsystems proved to be better at marketing than most of these wannabe SPARC workstation vendors, and so names like Solbourne, Axil Computer, HAL Computer and Ross Technology etc got consigned to the dustbin of history.

An added complication was that the performance of Intel Architecture PC's continued to rise, and by 2001, the quarterly shipments of SPARC workstations were not only declining in market share terms, but also in absolute unit quantities. You wouldn't know this, if you relied on reading Sun's cleverly crafted press releases, which continued proclaiming that they were getting increased market share, even while their unit quantities were going down...

Although this product category will survive in special applications areas like EDA, and software development for SPARC servers, Sun's vaunted hope of stealing the desktop market away from Wintel was never a serious prospect to anyone who didn't work for the company. Sun's key strength was, and remains, servers.

In contrast to the desktop, the SPARC portable market continues to show strong growth. That's a product area in which Sun has never been successful with its own products. But Sun is a significant reseller of SPARC notebooks.
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