Now he's quoted as saying, 'Sparc is the way to go' in the workstation market.

The apparent discrepancy is down to the way IDC defines the workstation market.

The workstation market is the big one for the Perseus design, with close to a half million systems shipped last year alone.

They also started to dispose of some of their interests in the former workstation market.

Others suggested moving into the workstation market using a commodity processor.

Competition in the personal workstation market is fierce, and some observers doubt that the new approach will do anything but muddy the waters even more.

It was successfully deployed both on the server and the workstation markets.

The current workstation market uses x86-64 microprocessors.

This machine marked Atari Corp.'s last big push into the workstation market.

Sun's very presence in the workstation market, however, means that MIPS is unlikely ever to be number one.