While bean counters reckon that Sun Microsystems Inc must be moving close to its goal of selling 10,000 Sparcstations a month, they say DEC – in stark comparison – looks to be doing only 800 DECstation-3100s a month, leaving them to speculate that if IBM can garner market share with its new AIX boxes, it will probably be at the expense of the likes of DEC and Hewlett – but others reckon that IBM’s entry will primarily increase the size of the total market at the expense of all proprietary architectures – where no-one has more to lose than – IBM.
