Wow, our office is going flexible! We've tried to put it off as long as possible, but now it's official: from September on the Hungarian office will implement iWork and the flexible office stuff. I can't say I'm too happy about it. I have nothing against Sun Rays (I really like the mobility it gives) but the per head floor space one can occupy will be reduced as well (3 former cubicles will be used to create about 5-6 flexible office workplaces).

Tomorrow I'll be at a customer site all day. We're doing a 300 seat Sun Ray installation at a utility company in Budapest, and the project is nearing it's final phase. This is real solution business: the first presentation about thin clients were held in early 2002, the pilot was finished in late 2002 and for various reasons the RFP phase took almost one and a half years. We've won the procurement process in March and started the project in early April. It's really complex, two of the biggest problems are the localization of Sun software and the migration of the customers existing PC (DOS and Windows based) infrastructure. Localization means Sun Gnome and various JES web frontends, as Sun doesn't support us officially in this (we had to find a local company to help us in this respect but luckily I still have some connections at the university and students can be very effective in creating good quality translations of technical texts).

I've found the blog of Tim Foster, who seems to be working on technologies to make localizations easier to do. It's strange, I've always thought that Sun globally contracts other companies to do the translations... at least that was my perception last time I tried to convince a product manager (he kept on saying things like "I need a solution that scales"... Of course he meant a business solution, not a technical one:)