Craig Sultan, the Montgomery Computer Systems analyst, said that the workstation market will continue to be driven by new product cycles emphasising significant performance breakthroughs and price-performance improvements in raw microprocessor performance and in graphics: gross margins in the industry could come under pressure as a result of increasing competition among the five workstation leaders coupled with the threat of Intel Corp’s powerful Pentium processors and Microsoft Corp’s Unix-like NT operating system; Montgomery expects to see very strong growth for high-end personal computer Superservers, which provide greater expandability, systems management software and fault-tolerant capabilities using standard personal computer components; the driving trends are consolidation of small servers, and the proliferation of departmental applications.
