Chennai, Feb 25: Sun Microsystems India has broken new grounds in technical computing with the launch of its new generation workstations for personal computing called Ultra (TM) 5 and Ultra 10.The two workstations belonging to the Darwin line were launched in Chennai by Sun Microsystems India managing director Bhaskar Pramanik and Sun's market development director Bill Petro.
According to Bill Petro, the Darwin line launched in the US in early January this year will reassert Sun's market leadership in technical computing. The computers are available at an entry level price of less than $3,000 in the US. Sun will be able to consolidate its market position in the higher end segment of technical computing, he said.
Managing director Bhaskar Pramanik told reporters that the work-stations market in India last year amounted to 3,200 units and it could see additional installations of 1,500-2,000 units in a couple of years. Sun was aiming to ship about 700 to 800 units in India in the first year and was hopingto get a market share of 50 per cent in two years in India. Total market size then is expected to be around 5,000 units.
Pramanik said the Darwin line of personal computer workstations is one more step towards ensuring "no limits computing" as the future computing will involve "network computing" as a "wave". This will include areas like personal wares, credit cards, automobile segment or airline travel or home appliances segment where computers will come to play a big role.
The Sun official said Sun computers based on Unix operating system will continue to provide medium enterprises segment sufficient power to take up sophisticated applications using precision graphics. Normal personal workstations use Windows-NT technology. The Darwin line on the other hand will focus on newer applications based on Unix and Sparc-Risc processors.
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