Analysts at Bear Stearns & Co reckon that Sun Microsystems has shipped some 50,000 Sparcstations to date, 8,000 of which include Open Look developer kits. It says that the company expects to have close to 300 Open Look applications by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Sun says that third party products for the Sparc line have now topped the 2,000 mark – a fourfold increase over the last year. Sun claims to be selling Sparcstations at an annual rate of 125,000 systems, and to have joined MS-DOS on Intel hardware, and Macintosh as one of the three volume desktop environments. Recent converts to the Sparc include Nynex Information Solutions, Mentor Graphics Inc, Andersen Consulting and Landmark Graphics.
