> Those in the enterprise that travel as part of their > job might > need a laptop, so that they have functionality > independent of > connectivity to the servers.
Yes, but what do they need Windows for? Office functionality, and better, and then some, is provided for by OpenOffice. They don't need a Windows laptop that they can break playing around with when they are bored; they need to connect via VPN and use their Office documents. And that's much easier and simpler to provide with a Solaris laptop than a Windows one. > Those that are in R&D > or whatever, > such that they need access to high-end 3D graphics, > or need lower > latency disk access than NFS can provide, probably > will > need a desktop and not just a Sun Ray. Now, that > desktop could > perhaps be loaded in such a way that it booted > diskless and used the > local disk if any strictly for cachefs (at least with > respect to OS > filesystems; if latency were an issue, app data > filesystems might be local) > and swap, making it in effect a thin client of sorts, > if not quite as easily administered as a Sun Ray. > > So I'd say even fairly typical enterprises might have > some limited use > for non-thin-clients that some end users might > interact directly with. > JumpStart, flash archives, careful configuration > choices, and other > installation and administration tools and > considerations could mitigate > but not quite eliminate the overhead of > administration for those. And you might be very much right, except we were concentrating on "mom 'n' pop" startups / small businesses. And for those, in 99% of the cases, they don't need a high powered workstation. Most small firms have a single white box PC! Remember, there is a world of difference between a Europan startup (tiny, with cash out one's own pocket) versus a typical American startup (few million dollars of venture capital). Two completely different worlds. Two completely different mentalities, attitudes, and priorities, at least in my personal experience. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
