Right. I love my sunray for all these reasons, plus it's really quiet ;-) Nothing for me to administer as a client, and my session follows me everywhere. Granted, that requires a client appliance, but acquisition and maintenance costs per client are cheap.
It's interesting to step back and look at industry trends in this area. One could make a case that Google and Yahoo are going in this direction, as their portal grows in features: web, calendar, storage, etc. Microsoft is doing similar with their Windows Live Cloud-ware efforts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Core) Just thinking about what a desktop is anymore is challenging. Heck, iPhones are a desktop to many. Food for thought. -dt Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:25:22 +0100, Nils Goroll <slink at mcs.de> wrote: > > >> Solaris can run off the network without the need for any local >> disks. The basic concept of "diskless clients" dates back to the >> 1990s when Sun built workstations without any disks (SPARCstation >> > [...] > >> Diskless clients use NFS to access a split Solaris installation: A >> dedicated (per diskless client) root filesystem (read-write) and a >> shared /usr filesystem (read-only). Besides the advantage that this >> concept ensures that many servers use the *same* operating environment >> (not just copies of it), diskless client technology centralises patch >> and change management and thus allows for efficient and cost effective >> management of larger installations - at the expense of more complexity >> on the central server (OS-Server). >> > > Hmm...I'd thought that most of this is more or less achived by the > SunRay technology (without even getting NFS in the way at all) ? > that's at least what I'd call a diskless client these days.... > > --- > frankB > > _______________________________________________ > nfs-discuss mailing list > nfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- <http://www.sun.com/solaris> *Don Traub* Senior Engineering Manager, Solaris Storage Software *Sun Microsystems, Inc.* 500 Eldorado Blvd., MS UBRM05-171 Broomfield, CO. 80021 Phone x41860/303-547-3537 Cell 303-888-0683 Fax 303-272-7736 Email don.traub at sun.com <mailto:don.traub at sun.com> <http://www.sun.com/solaris>
