It's a nice setup. The Sun Rays are controlled by a Sun Ray server, which runs on Solaris 10. Users connect to XP desktops with various open source apps installed.
Everything's hosted on VMware Server, the free version. The article doesn't make as big an issue as it should about power - a PC is typically 80 to 120 watts, not 16 as mentioned. The Sun Ray 2s draw only 4 watts. Even when you add in the servers, that means big power reductions and big reductions in AC requirements! We have a larger scale installation doing much the same thing in Yemen - http://www.itp.net/news/519538-y-gsm-claims-first-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-in-middle-east ...and another 240 seats at a university in the Gulf, both using VMware. There are various other installations using Windows Terminal Services in the region too. Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sharjah-based SIA chose a number of freely available open-source > programs - including OpenOffice and the Solaris 10 operating system - to > run on top > of its new thin clients and servers from Sun Microsystems, which it > finished installing last year. > > http://www.itp.net/news/520872-sharjah-school-dumps-high-cost-software-for-open-source-applications > > <http://www.itp.net/news/520872-sharjah-school-dumps-high-cost-software-for-open-source-applications> > > sarfaraz > > -- Christopher Saul Sales Manager, Desktop Virtualisation Sun Microsystems EMMA Mobile: +971 50 650 7041 Office: +971 4 366 2634 Ext: x12634 http://www.sun.com/software/sdis/
