Sun Microsystems Inc’s Computer Corp unit duly came out with a new, cheaper Sparcstation IPC, offering a colour system for under $6,000 for the first time. The Mountain View company also cut prices on its desktop products by up to 26% and added a lower-cost, more flexible version of its Sparcengine IPX board-level product. The company reckons that the new IPC lines up against an IBM Corp RS/6000 Model 220 at $10,000 and an HP 9000/710 at $14,065 – and is nearly $2,000 under a similarly equipped 486/33M PC from Compaq Computer Corp. It has a new 16 1,152 by 900 monitor from Sony Corp, 8Mb memory and a 207Mb disk and Solaris 1.0 is bundled. The Sparcstation ELC entry-level monochrome workstation is down 20% at $4,000, and the 16 IPX is off 26% at $10,000, the 19 is off 18.5% at $11,000. The 16 and 19 colour models of the Sparcstation 2 are off 17% at $15,300 and 11.9% at $16,300 respectively. The new Sparcengine IPX has no memory and replaces the old IPX that included 16Mb, at $6,500. It is out in June; all others are out now.
