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Sun Microsystems Inc.'s push last week into the low-priced workstation market could pay quick dividends. On the same day that Sun launched its aggressively priced Darwin line of workstations, systems integrator and clone maker EIS Computers Inc., Moorpark, Calif., put the UltraSPARC IIi to work in a new $3,950 machine, called Fusion-iX. Introduced in tandem with Darwin, Fusion-iX "eliminates NT's only advantage: price," says EIS president David Van Beveren.
Sun's new low-end workstations are the Ultra 5 (starting at $2,995) and Ultra 10 (starting at $6,000). On the high-end, the new...