Ferranti International’s Expert Systems Products Group has decided to cut the price of its Inference ART automated reasoning tool by just under 50%; the UKP35,000 version designed for large workstations will now sell at UKP26,000, while the small workstation version – also currently priced at UKP35,000 – has been reduced to UKP17,500: the company has also announced an introductory price for ART on Sun Microsystems’ 4/110 and Texas Instruments’ MicroExplorer box of just UKP14,000.