The quote is actually from a cartoon called "Pinky and The Brain"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_And_The_Brain)... which ranks right
up there with Snoopy and Bugs Bunny for best cartoon ever.
Yes, we support multiple companies from a central server farm.
My opinion on a centrally-managed, consumer-oriented Sun Ray service is
that one would need to be very careful to target the right consumer
group. As much as I love the Sun Rays, I think it would be very
difficult to explain why a consumer could not watch Lost on their Sun
Ray (http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2006/04/disney_testing.html)
or to explain why the Sun Ray is not compatible with the TuneBuckle
(http://www.tunebuckle.com). While it would be easy to allocate storage
for your users' photo collections, it would also be difficult to explain
on a support call where exactly to put the installation disk and cables
that came with the camera.
I am not trying to paint a bad picture of the Sun Rays -- I do love
mine! But fundamentally I believe the PC market is splitting into a
digital-media-converged market (for consumers) and a
reliability-and-availability focused market (for business users). The
six versions of Windows Vista [sic] is further proof that this
transformation is taking place. For consumers, an Internet-based Sun
Ray service makes sense only for those who use their PCs like a business
user... i.e., they run productivity apps, they do not install new
software very often, and they favor reliability over novelties.
On the other hand, I do think there is a market for Sun Rays at home
where the server is also at home. The technical hurdles for that
solution, however, are entirely different.
-jerry
Ivar Janmaat wrote:
Hello Jerry,
Well, my ambitions are not that high ;-)
But I find this interesting. Most sunray setups are within an
enterprise and run over the Internet for home use.
Supporting different companies from a central sunray server failover
farm is rare to come across these days.
Are you servicing multiple companies with a single failover group like
we do?
This thread started with the question if the Sunray could be a player
in the consumer market.
One of the issues for the consumer market is scalability and security.
You can not give every consumer there own server for $30 a month and
yet you need to separate them from all the other users.
I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed first before we
hit the street tonight. ;-D
Any suggestions on that?
Ivar
Jerry Callison wrote:
Actually, I'm doing it too! (United States)
Jerry: "What do you want to do tonight, Ivar?"
Ivar: "Same thing we do every night, Jerry... try to TAKE OVER THE
WORLD!"
:^)
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