On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... The SunRay is now 2 to 3 times the price of a low-end laptop. ... But it lasts nearly 10 times as long (typical corporate cycle for a laptop is 3 years, and they usually get rebuilt at least once in that time-frame). -Kevin On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I think that its very uncertain now what the hardware platform > for > future enterprise desktops are going to become. > The SunRay is now 2 to 3 times the price of a low-end laptop. > > Microsoft has lost the consumer market. > Kids are growing up on Samsung and Apple devices. And a host of > tablet vendors. > COmpanies are going to face LARGE investments in education when > Non-microsoft literate graduates walk out the collage/university > doors. > > I believe we are approaching something Next-generation stuff. > > Or the that the future will be very fragmented , sort of back to the > Early 1980:ies pre-PC era. > When dozens of manufacturers produced their desktops. with dozens of > operating systems. > > //Lars > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:54:15 +0200 (CEST), Tobias Oetiker > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Leigh, > > > > Today Leigh Porter wrote: > > > >> > >> On 15 Jul 2013, at 13:34, "Tobias Oetiker" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Today Garry Taylor wrote: > >> > > >> >> That's a real shame, Sun Rays have been a real killer app for me. > Hopefully > >> >> Oracle will choose to sell it off to someone who will continue > development. > >> > > >> > sad to see my gut feeling come true ... we jumped ship some time > >> > ago ... > >> > > >> > http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/sunray2thinlinc/ > >> > >> Thanks for this! How do you arrange access from windows based clients ? > > > > thinlinc is software only ... the client can be installed on a > > thinclient but you can also run it on your linux/windows/mac box > > and since the 4.1 release there is even a html5 version which works > > on modern webbrowsers including the ipad. > > > > cheers > > tobi > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users >
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