A separate business unit will also manage SGI's Visual Workstation line of Windows NT workstations. Silicon Graphics (SGI) is to slash up to 1,500 jobs worldwide, and is planning to sell its Cray supercomputer unit.
The Sun Blade 100 will cost $995 in its most basic form: the lowest ever price for a workstation. Although customers will have to dig a bit deeper if they want luxuries such as monitors and 3D graphics cards, the Blade 100 is still half the price...
It's just the desktop replacement for the workstation, which is not that new as Siemens Fujitsu have been doing it for ages with Celsius. The ThinkPad A31p is the first in a range of mobile workstations.
The Sun Blade 150 workstation, starting at $1,395, is the latest in a series of inexpensive Risc/Unix workstations designed to compete against workstations based around Intel chips running Windows or Linux.
As a result they are looking to new technologies such as blade PCs - where the hardware is not on the desktop but tucked away in the server room - and PC virtualisation, which allows them to run key applications in a very secure "sandbox".
Speaking at a launch to promote HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package, Tom Walker, IT director at Lloyds TSB Capital Markets, said overheating is a frequent problem on trading floors due to the computing power required by traders, and the...