Joel Buckley wrote: >>>Eric Boutilier wrote: >>> >>>Ok, but seriously, why minimize a user desktop? >>> >>> >>> > >The limiting factor on SunRay2 deployment is Memory >use on per User Desktop. 60 SunRay User Desktops >managed on a single SunRay Server appears to be typical... > >The top memory consumption programs are: > >- Xorg >- Mozilla >- Firefox >- Thunderbird >- StarOffice >- Gnome-Terminal > >In the target audience for SunRays, what are the primary >applications utilized on SunRays? > >Any reductions in Memory consumption of the above applications >results in a direct ability to scale SunRay User Desktops on a >single SunRay Server instance. > >Joel. > >
It seems to me that a browser is a must-have pretty much 100% of the time. And IMO (for any SunRay target audience I can think of) it would have to be Firefox. Those kinds of deployments always seem to need the most feature-full and familiar (multi-platform) browser there is, and on those terms Firefox is looking like a runaway winner these days. Eric
