与场面火爆的PC产品市场相比,大陆工作站市场显得冷清一些,五大品牌统治市场的局面并没有发生根本逆转。尽管如此,我们还是在时隔半年之后再次对该市场进行研究,因为半年以来这里所发生的种种变迁,必然引起众多读者的浓厚兴趣。 在6月评测中,我们曾提出工作站销售看好的观点,这一看法,系指在网络化潮流中,工作站绝对市场规模会有所扩大,但并不意味着它的市场份额会有明显扩张。事实上,由于CPU芯片的技术突破,装载奔腾以至更高水平P6芯片的PC类服务器已具备以往小型机才具备的性能,因而原有的工 Compared with the scene of hot PC product market, the mainland workstation market seems deserted, the five brands dominate the market situation has not fundamentally reversed. Nevertheless, we are again after six months to study the market again, because the changes that have taken place here six months, will inevitably attract the interest of many readers. In the June evaluation, we have put forward the viewpoint that workstation sales are promising. This view means that the absolute market size of the workstation will expand in the network trend, but this does not mean that its market share will expand significantly. In fact, due to the technological breakthrough of the CPU chip, PC-based servers loaded with Pentiums and even higher-level P6 chips are already equipped with the capabilities of previous minicomputers. Therefore,