Industrial multi display users depend on reliable cards that can withstand tourture day in day out without dying. 
Matrox is #1 in the millitary and Medical industries, youre not paying for the performance with this stuff Its Reliability youre paying for, my old parhelia is still kicking after 6 years of running in my dev box. 1UP! ^_^

You lot should get out more often. 

Go & see a live show that involves multi screens or projectors, you can bet Matrox triple head or quad head products are feeding them..

and was online from beginning:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SEATTLE_PDT.story&STORY=/www/story/06-25-2008/0004838926&EDATE=WED+Jun+25+2008,+01:00+PM
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/press/releases/2008/corpo/mseries/

I'd love to see quad LCD output, as in 4 times 1024x768 equals 4096x3072. If Matrox could provide a unique innovation like that, and somehow got a high end GPU in the package, it would be interesting. If they can't design their own GPU, they should use one from the top two or merge with a chip company that can.

The last time I bought some card from Matrox it had an incredibly inferior amount of RAM for the time (64MB compared to 128 to 256 at the time), and was not even capable of running high resolutions at usable frequencies (85hz for a CRT) at anything higher than 16bit color! The cheaper gaming card I bought to replace that POS had far better capabilities in all respects, and I could just buy a second one if I was hell-bent on having a "quad head" system.

Honestly, I don't understand what purpose Matrox has in the market anymore, when even the cheapest gaming cards have better capabilities in every way than a lot of their shoddy-ass models.

Ugh still no decent 3D gaming cards, thought they where getting back in the saddle when I read the headline..

I used to have Matrox cards back in the day.. IF they went and became competitive I would have a hard time choosing between Nvidia and Matrox =)

You think those prices are high?

We are a Solutions Partner with Siemens Energy and Automation, which focuses mainly on industrial control.

One of their products we work with frequently is the PCS 7 distributed control system, which can run anything from a small pilot plant to a multiple unit plant, like a refinery or bulk chemical plant, or a large power station. It's modular, so you can add control processors and operator workstations out the wazoo to get the performance you need. Most of the time the client asks for fully redundant hardware, including networks, so there are NO single points of failure.

On the operator workstations, they offer single-head up to quad-head displays. Quad-displays are generally mounted two levels, two displays per level, so it's like a large square display. Really neat when you use 24" displays. But not suitable for gaming.

Siemens charges us for the 2D graphic adapters:
2 display: $1,785
4 display: $2,860

Well, we found out a couple of years ago that their graphic adapters are rebadged Matrox G45X2DUAL-BF and G45X4QUAD-BF, which we order from any one of many generic computer part suppliers at ~$500 for the dual, to about $700 for the quad. We pass the savings on to our customers and everyone, except Siemens is happy, but they are too, because the cost of one of their PCS 7 systems generally runs about $250k to $500k and up.

Hopefully, the new cards can be used with the Siemens software, so we can continue saving our customers mucho moola.

Ah for the kinda kick a Matrox Millennium and a Voodoo would give you back when... What went wrong?

about those prices.

Could really do with 4 outputs.

What do I need a Matrox card for?
Everything is already offered by Ati and Nvidia 
for a better price including much better performance. So where is the point?

Inquirer is getting waay too carried away trying to create a sensational subject title! 

In an article sometime back, Inquirer went as far as saying, "Nokia has delivered the 'knock out' blow to Android".. the truth was far from it.. 

C'mon ppl.. come up with some sensible titles and dont get our hopes high and our hearts pounding for no reason!