I can't seem to stifle the urge to throw in my two cents, so here goes:

If something doesn't give with the cost of the DTU and RTU, our last purchase of sunrays could be the last one, period. I can deploy a well-equipped linux box for the same price as the last sunray system we purchased; the cost of the DTU+RTU alone is quite nearly there.

Three factors decided on our Sun/sunray purchase: price per desktop, ease of management, and application availability. More and more of our applications are available on linux; we are now at or near the point where we could feasibly switch platforms. The RTU license killed the price per desktop advantage, and making my life as a sysadmin easier doesn't carry all that much weight with anyone except me. |:

I realize this is a support oriented list, but as someone else said, maybe marketing or management are listening in.

-Jason
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Jason Winningham
Computer Systems Engineer
College of Engineering
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
http://support.eng.uah.edu/    http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw



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