The Sun Blade 100 workstation, expected to be unveiled Tuesday, is designed to compete against powerful Microsoft Windows-based PCs which have cut into the business computer market once mostly reserved for machines running on Unix operating systems, Sun officials said. Workstations are powerful computers typically used by engineers, financial analysts and graphic designers who need vast amounts of computing power.
Servers are the computers that manage Internet sites and corporate networks.
The new workstation also has twice the memory and is roughly half the price of Dell Computer Corp.'s 32-bit workstation, Kohout said.