Business Workstations: Who makes 'em?

[Stattlich]

Whatever happened to the business workstation market? Who supports it today and still makes stuff to the desire of SparcStations back in the late 90s? Discuss.

 

[pkme2]

They are some used units available but you really gotta look for them, good luck!
Sun Servers
is a start.

 

[JackBurton]

HP makes some nice workstations. What are you looking for? Or is this just a general question?

 

[Stattlich]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
HP makes some nice workstations. What are you looking for? Or is this just a general question?

Yeah I was looking at Sun too, but it is a general question. Just want to know what manufacturers still make them.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
HP makes some nice workstations. What are you looking for? Or is this just a general question?

I'll second the HP recommendation. I use one of the new A64 3500+ workstations. It's really nice, stock out of the box. Comes stock with 1GB dual channel ram, 80GB SATA drive. No floppy. Tons of USB ports. Onboard video, but it has a PCI-E slot. Not sure if it's a 16x though. Nice business pc/workstation for the money.

 

[Stattlich]

The HP offerings do look attractive and seem to be a full cut above their normal home market products.

Do they or anyone else offer Opteron workstations, however? A quad-core rig sounds yummy, but I don't want some gay game-spec rig with neon lights, a skull coming out of the front case faceplate and a window on the side to show off 17 fans. Y'know?

 

[grimlykindo]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: JackBurton
HP makes some nice workstations. What are you looking for? Or is this just a general question?

I'll second the HP recommendation. I use one of the new A64 3500+ workstations. It's really nice, stock out of the box. Comes stock with 1GB dual channel ram, 80GB SATA drive. No floppy. Tons of USB ports. Onboard video, but it has a PCI-E slot. Not sure if it's a 16x though. Nice business pc/workstation for the money.

Yup, we have these at work as well - Very fast for a "business" PC

 

[n0cmonkey]

If any of you HP fans want to send me a C360 I'd appreciate it. :evil:

 

[Chris2wire]

I really like the HP workstations, xw9300 I believe. Opteron with 4 gigs of ram, among other things.

 

[Stattlich]

Good good... what else?

 

[Remedy]

Sun Ultra40 series

IBM also makes a very, very nice Intellistation for the Opteron platform.

 

[Stattlich]

Originally posted by: Remedy
Sun Ultra40 series

IBM also makes a very, very nice Intellistation for the Opteron platform.

Now we're getting hotter. Are those two pretty much the pinnacle in this market?

 

[Remedy]

Originally posted by: Stattlich

Originally posted by: Remedy
Sun Ultra40 series

IBM also makes a very, very nice Intellistation for the Opteron platform.

Now we're getting hotter. Are those two pretty much the pinnacle in this market?

I would have to say so. I would've ordered the Ultra40 a month a go. But, I'm pretty much looking to move on to Socket L1 Opterons.