Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Blaster wrote:
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.
...
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.....
...which is disturbing, considering the fact that they're still
capable of doing the same work now as they were then. I regularly did
full-motion video on those with nary a hitch.
... and considering that there are tens of thousands of PCs in service
which act as little more than X-terminals.
The "business world" is really big on "upgrading for the sake of
upgrading", and companies like Dell and Microsoft are very happy to feed
this stupid habit...which is why I (at least) don't take any of those
three parties seriously.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
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