e their hardware lower than the more famous U.S. names such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, and others.
"We charge 10 percent to 15 percent below competitive systems from Apple," says a spokesman from
Umax, Taiwan's largest scanner company that also entered the Mac-clone business last year.
Meanwhile, Tatung will move into volume shipments with its latest Web workstation and servers, which are based on the 64-bit UltraSparc processor. Tatung offers two Web machines, the CompStation U140-i and U170-i. They support the 143- and 167-MHz UltraSparc chips, respectively. Both systems are designed for power-hungry but price-sensitive Internet service providers (ISPs) and Java applications developers, a spokeswoman says.
You can mix and match the system components and peripherals, but a standard configuration for both systems is 32 MB of memory, a 1-GB hard drive, Turbo GX graphics, and a 20-inch color monitor. Models also offer three SBus slots, a 10Base-T Ethernet interface, and other options. Another key to the Tatung machines is the Ultra Port Architecture -- a high-performance interconnection that provides transfer rates of up to 1.3 Gbps, making it ideal for TCP/IP data traffic jams. Both systems co
me with software to access the Web, including SunSoft's Internet Gateway Server 1.0, Netscape's FastTrack Server, and Solaris 2.5.
Acer is making a push in the Web-server market with its AcerAltos 19000, based on a single- or dual-Pentium Pro processor. The 19000 runs a TCP/IP package under SCO Unix, NetWare, and Windows NT.
Internet-Server Bandwagon
