On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/24/10 11:46 AM, Mika A wrote:
Nah. For desktops, that was the case for a while, but no longer. I'm
moving people off of Windows left and right, and every Sun Ray installation
I've done has been completely devoid of Windows.
Wau, that is amazing. Maybe I have been saturated by the windows-air I've
been breathing.. We are an educational institute and for some reason or
another people here want windows and windows apps and for some reasons our
IT does what people tell it to do instead of other way around.
And where is that, in today's world from a small company's perspective?
Providing inexpensive, easily manageable, low-power, small-footprint
desktops.
Of those, the first is currently badly missing.
And more precisely: what part of that can't be done with
<whatever-windows-installable-solution>?
With stability, maintainability, security, and good performance? Which ones
CAN be done with Windows?
Well, you really can take any VDI solution, run dynamic (delete
after logout) desktops there and have enough of those all.
It is great if there are people who accept a switch to linux just like
that but it simply is not always possible. We have software people use
that only works on windows etc.
And I have seen one of our users (who was on Sun Ray using virtual
windows desktop) trying to use Excel but she had to switch back to PC
because either Excel or RDP or uttsc has bugs which disconnected the
session every time she tried to do a specific task and there were several
different tasks that happened with. So it's not always possible to "just
switch" and not even notice.
running linux on my desktops for 10 years. But I am the only one doing
that in our company.
Heh...Find a better job. ;)
I guess I should.. :-)
Yes, that is a plus if you are a UNIX company. But that was not my point.
Right, your point was complaining that this UNIX product doesn't cater to
Windows as much as you'd like it to.
Umm, no... The point was: companies that eat and breath windows that COULD
get into VDI with SunVDI WON'T do that, because it requires SOLARIS (or
LINUX) and they (or their it support guy or whatever) are not comfortable
with that.
.mika
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