> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sunray-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:58 PM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Why SunRay? > > On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Blaster wrote: > > And I have a 15 year old ASCII terminal downstairs...It too never > > needed > > upgrading or patching, and it too still works just as it did the day I > > bought it 15 years ago, but it really isn't all that useful by today's > > standards. > > Interesting. I use them all the time. Servers do need consoles you > know, despite this annoying and unbelievably stupid propensity for some > vendors to configure servers destined for datacenters with > framebuffers, keyboards, and mice.
When a server crashes and can't be accessed by the network, what do you do, drive in to your data center? All the data centers I've been in in the last 10 years have switched over to network terminal concentrators, ALOM, RSC, HMC, etc, etc for a true lights out environment. I haven't had to drive in to work at 3am to fix a hung server since the day we wheeled the last ASCII terminal out to the recycling pile. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
