Tucked away in a maze of stores selling low-end chop-shop PCs and pirated CD-Roms is Sun Microsystems' first entry into the local retail market.
The Sun Ultra Shop is a dedicated section of the Centralfield Shop in the infamous Golden Computer Centre in Shamshuipo.
The shop sells Sun's entry-level Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 workstations and the Ultra Enterprise 250 server. It also offers a version of the Sun Solaris operating system that runs on low-end Intel-based workstations and servers for $200.
The Ultra 5 is one of the industry's cheapest workstations, with a starting price of US$2,745.
But it is priced above the offerings of other stores in the mall, which will custom assemble a PC with a 300 MHz processor for as little as HK$4,000.
Danny Tam, general manager Sun Hong Kong, said small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were one of the targets Sun hoped to reach through the store.
Centralfield had a well-established direct-sales team with contacts in the SME market, he said.