Sun Java Workstation was a line of

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s sold by

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from 2004 to 2006, based on the

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family. The range supplanted the earlier

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workstation line. These were the first x86-

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workstations Sun had produced, other than the short-lived

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in the late 1980s. Supported

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were Solaris,

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WS or

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9. The Java Workstation name alluded to the workstations being intended to run Sun's

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, a GNOME-based

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. The Java Workstation series was replaced by Ultra 20 and Ultra 40 workstations from 2005 onwards.

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