Big Blue's Slice Of The Trading Pie

Traders Magazine, May, 2001 by A special correspondent

Armed with its latest gizmo, IBM is eyeing a larger market share of the trading room desktop market.

Big Blue's gambit: a rack-mounted, Windows-based workstation dubbed IntelliStation R Pro. IBM has also introduced a new flat panel monitor.

The remote trader workstation - not much larger than a medium-sized pizza box - comes on top of its existing line of IntelliStations. And it is the industry's first one-unit, rack-mounted computer for financial houses, industry pros say.

The price tag for the R Pro is $4,500 to $5,000. The T 210 monitor sells for just under $6,000.

The workstations, which can be vertically stacked on racks away from the trading desk, run on either single or dual Intel Pentium 111 processors. They can store up to 4 gigabytes of...

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