Personally I would not look with favor on walking into a bank and seeing the tellers using any kind of portable device to look things up on the central machine, be it mainframe, mini, or server. I feel the same way about a lot of governemt offices as well. Would you trust people that are paid as little as possible with YOUR personal information and money if all it takes is "one bad apple" to cost you a fortune? The easier it is to take information without IT/management knowing about it the less I would trust on mobile devices. I am not saying low paid people are not trust worthy only that money/information could tempt anyone but they are more easily swayed/have less to lose. Even with things running on virtual machines or Citrix can be imaged and saved to a local drive. Jon > From: b...@rolandschorr.com > To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > Subject: RE: Death of the Desktops? > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:38:20 +0000 > > I agree with Greg. I think there's always (at least for the foreseeable > future) going to be a role for desktop machines though I think SOME desktop > clients are going to be replaced with docked mobile devices. > > It may be that 10 years from now most of us are using some sort of tablet > that, as Greg suggests, slips into a docking station with a real keyboard and > large monitor(s). > > Ben M. Schorr > Chief Executive Officer > ______________________________________________ > Roland Schorr & Tower > www.rolandschorr.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Death of the Desktops? > > The desktop isn’t going anywhere really, it's just evolving. What will > probably fade out (except for high-end needs) is the dedicated non-mobile > desktop pc. I can easily see were your tablet\phone\whatever has enough > processing and graphic power to be sitting in a dock in the office, with full > keyboard and mouse support, and then is lifted out and taken with you on the > go. There will always be room for the places that have users that do not need > this (Call centers, retail, etc) so it never will truly die out. > > -Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:42 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Death of the Desktops? > > Spreadsheets creation and data entry, page layout, photo processing, writing, > presentation creation - those and more are far more difficult on anything > without a keyboard and mouse. > > Kurt > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rankin, James R <kz2...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Can you imagine writing technical documents or doing CAD on a tablet? > > Sure the percentages may change, but the desktop will not go away anytime > > soon. > > It might run on a thin client, but there's still a place for a desktop > > - even if virtual. > > > > Pundits have been predicting things like "the death of Citrix" and > > "the year of the Linux desktop" for a long while. I haven't noticed > > either of them happening. > > > > YMMV, IMO, etc. > > ---Blackberried > > ________________________________ > > From: Roger Wright <rhw...@gmail.com> > > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:41 -0400 > > To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" > > <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > Subject: Death of the Desktops? > > > > There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop > > computing is facing certain death, and especially for desktop > > computers as we've known them up to now. Indeed, there are more > > portable offerings available than desktop machine options, but with a > > higher price/performance/feature ratio. > > I'm not sure I buy it, especially for many business environments where > > access to legacy apps is critical. But it does give me something to > > consider as we face our annual equipment refresh cycle. > > > > What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Roger Wright > > ___ > > > > If I could choose any way to destroy the world, I'd delete Google. > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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