Market position and market timing killed the Xterminals. Had there been
an inexpensive and effective way to connect Xterminals to Windows at
that time, then perhaps they would have survived... in which case they
would still be as useful today as they were 15 years ago. Of course,
the Xterminals that I used 15 years were monochrome... which means they
also failed the "standards of user interaction" test.
I refuse to prognosticate about whether Sun will survive market
economics... but I feel very safe (rather than courageous) banking on
their technology.
-jerry
Blaster wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sunray-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Callison
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:37 PM
To: SunRay-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Why SunRay?
Perhaps I am not making my point in an effective way.
You made your point just fine. You just don't seem to get that I think it's
wrong. Your statements, as far as I'm concerned, prove my point, not yours
:)
The average PC lasts about 3-5 years in the business world. Larger/richer
companies at 3, smaller poorer companies at 5. To say the Sun Ray
terminals, or any Thin/Dumb client in their current generation is going to
still be suitably useful in 3-5 times that period is, lets just say, a very
courageous thing to say.
I wouldn't even hazard a guess as to whether or not 100Mb Ethernet will
still even be useful 15 years from now. Yes, I know 10MB has been around
longer than that, and is still here today, but amazing technological
advances can happen over night making today's "long lived" technology
useless long before it's maker intended.
Thin/Dumb clients have been around almost since the day computers where
first powered on...But we certainly still are not using the same methods
that we used 15 years ago.
Where are NCD Xterminals today? Basically the same thing as a Sun Ray, yet
I haven't seen one in use since I graduated University in the early 90s, 15
years ago.....
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