Redland, California firm Young Minds Inc is aiming to take advantage of Sun Microsystems Inc’s planned strategy to be distributing all software for its workstations and servers on compact disk by the end of this year with its CD-Maker CD-ROM system. CD-Maker comprises Sony CD Write-Once and Young Minds’ own Makedisc formatting and driver software. The combined package costs $35,500 for the Sun-3, Sun-4, Sparcstations and personal computers. Makedisc software is also available separately for the Sun line, Data General’s AViiON workstations, Hewlett-Packard’s 9000 series – and Apollo workstations, IBM’s RS/6000, DEC Ultrix systems, the NeXT computer and MS-DOS-based personal computers at $7,000.
