Nippon Sun Microsystems has decided to start selling its workstations directly to universities and research establishments from this month – the workstations have hitherto been sold through C Itoh Techno-Science: by next spring the company plans to expand its direct sales territory to whole of Japan; the workstations – which run American language software only – if you want Japanese language processing, you have to get your Suns from Toshiba Corp – sell for $48,000 to $110,000 in Japan; the subsidiary of the Mountain View company is looking to hire 200 more sales people to take the total to 300 by mid-year.