The word "workstations" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to computers or desks set up for work in an office. For example, "The company has five workstations that employees can use to get their work done."
It includes the provision of servers, storage, workstations, portable devices, software, wireless technology, network infrastructure, peripherals, and network management services.
The most expensive lot will be for workstations, which will cost between £6.4m and £12.8m, according to the notice.
The the three-year contract will be divided into 16 lots: servers; storage; ICT spares; workstations; portable devices; Apple iOS devices; Microsoft software; network infrastructure components; managed wireless; cabling components; data cabinets; peripherals; support partnership; curriculum software; network management; and bundled items.
Staffordshire envisages that the technology provided will range from entry level workstations for general day-to-day office based work, such as email, internet, word processing and school management information systems work.
It is anticipated that this lot will also include requirements for thin/zero client workstations," adds the notice.
"Workstations procured under this lot will be used in all areas of the establishment.
When audio is not being beamed out live, it is kept on 400 workstations that together store 1.5m songs or 50 terabytes (ie, 50m megabytes) of data more than four times that held in the Library of Congress.
COMPUTER viruses, the self-replicating programs that infect workstations and cripple networks, are a hazard to business.
Sun, one of Microsoft's fiercest rivals, makes high-end workstations and the big server computers that power many web-sites.
After being called away, the remaining 50 returned to their desperate tasks only one hour later, as the intensity of radiation at their workstations subsided somewhat.
Bioinformatics is actually a spectrum of technologies, covering such things as computer architecture (eg, workstations, servers, supercomputers and the like), storage and data-management systems, knowledge management and collaboration tools, and the life-science equipment needed to handle biological samples.
