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Friday Jun 09, 2006

Can somebody tell me why the whole world has not tossed out the Winsmell architecture and replaced every desktop with a tasty new SunRay client?

It's like watching people suffer from a deadly illness while we hold out the cure with an open hand as they pass by.

They seem to rather die than take the medicine.  The software is available for the asking.  The only way we can make this medicine easier to take would be to deliver the DVD's unsolicited to each and every person in America, very much like AOL.

I DO NOT believe everyone trying to manage a bunch of PC's is stupid.  That would be too easy.

I DO believe we are not shouting loud enough for people to hear us and they simply do not know that we have the cure.  Even if I'm wrong, and managers are making well-informed decisions to avoid using SunRay clients in their enterprise, it must mean that we're doing something wrong.

So what is the hold up?  Why don't we see millions of PC's getting replaced with SunRay clients?

Comments:

I think it's because the admins don't know how the thin client technology simplifies their life and because company managers want to be cool by allowing their workers to do a lot more things with their PC than just work related things and how would you install Doom3 on a thin client? But besides the management-issue I think sun should work on providing detailed information how it works and how it simplifies the BOFH-life because even I (a technical well informed sysop/company owner/consultant/friend) don't know exactly how sun rays work. I just know that I need a server running specific software that is required to boot up the rays and then? Is the server used to work on it via Xforwarding? So all the people share the resources of the server? What about Windows? If these information would be publicly available a lot more admins would get to know how it works and would like to give it a try, you see the point?

Posted by Marco on June 10, 2006 at 04:07 AM PDT #

I can explain why Wintel hasn't been replaced with one word . . . MatLab! I have been tasked at my company to implement MatLab on our 400 SunRays we have deployed. I am working on building a compute server (cluster?) to handle this load. SunRays are great for everyday desktop things (email, web surfing, office apps), but do not do well when you need high-end 3D graphics, video or compute-intensive apps. Maybe later when we finally get 1GB network to the SunRay and 100GB from the server.

Posted by Craig A. Betts on June 17, 2006 at 09:18 AM PDT #

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