When my organization buys a Sun Blade 1000 high-end workstation, instead of similar system from our competitors, we get excellent Return on Asset Value via interoperability with our existing hardware and software investments, because Sun's vision of Technical Enterprise Computing delivers binary compatibility and the architecture necessary for the new dot com world. This provides great investment protection and flexibility of expansion as the customer needs grow. There is no need to upgrade the base system as it has future capability built in. Sun Blade 1000 with two 600 MHz CPUs offers very attractive multiprocessor capability. Sun Blade 1000 with multiprocessor 600 MHz configuration.
Some competitors force two CPUs without the option of starting off with only one.
Expandable from one CPU to two CPUs and ability to mix CPU speeds. This allows customers to reap even better return on investment by continued use of their current graphics investment. Support for existing graphics cards. Sun Blade 1000 has 8 GB RAM capacity that allows more of an application to run directly in RAM at far faster speeds than disk. This gives the customer application maximum speed for faster completion or for saving time for conducting more computations.