In its estimates for the world workstation market in 1989, Dataquest reckons that the market as a whole grew 40.2% to $6,000m and that Sun Microsystems Inc held the lead position with 28.7% even after the combination of Hewlett-Packard Co and Apollo Computer Inc, which came in second at 26.4%. DEC comes next with 15.9%, Intergraph Corp is in at four with 6% and Silicon Graphics Inc with 5.2%, leaving 17.8% for all others. Dataquest forecasts that growth will slow a little this year, to about 33%, for a 1990 market worth more than $8,000m. That compares with a personal computer market forecast by Dataquest to reach $48,000m, up from $43,000m in 1989. Japanese vendors are together estimated to have 12% to 13% of the world workstation market, most of it in Japan, with Sony Corp the only one that is visible with a share of 2% to 3%.
