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- Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
- Distributed Computing is now180 degrees out of sync with the bandwagon. That means that Murph's ideas are being adopted whilst mine are being ignored. I guess this proves that I am not a mirror of Murph.DumbRays are just as expensive as this Pano stuff. And what do you get for...
- Tags: Wintel, DumbRay, Pano, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-12
- Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
- The Pano is popular with the PC press, Sun Ray untouchable - and yet, what's a Pano that isn't 15 years behind? by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Pano, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- The case of the missing Sun refugees
- The case of the missing Sun refugeesMurph's rose colored glassesEvery IT vendor out there is on the "green" energy kick - and there are many thin client providers around too. If Sun survives, it will still have stiff competition anyway you look at it. This new client virtualization stuff goes...
- Tags: Servers, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray
- Discussion threads 2009-06-27
- Cooling future cost inflation
- Cooling future cost inflationMakes senseAlthough you COULD should take those 80+ watt desktops and grid them together in a distributed fashion - thus adding little-used CPU power into a big pool. This allows for ALL computers great and small to be loaded and configured EXACTLY THE SAME. This of course...
- Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Desktops, Virtualization, inflation, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-23
- Converting to Sun Ray, instead
- Converting to Sun Ray, insteadThis looks great until you rememberthat computing is about the applications, not the hardware or the platform.An age where we're looking to get through the next three years is not a time to be looking at projects that won't see a ROI for another 15 years.What,...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, wireless, Mendelssohn
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Converting to Sun Ray, instead
- If you should, as I said yesterday, consider Lintel for non power users as a way of saving some cash, why not go all the way and put in Sun Rays instead? by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Recession, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Cloud Computing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- MySQL Vs. Unify Data Server: What might have been
- If Sun had taken my advice to buy Unify Corporation as a going concern in 2003 they'd have spent less than a hundred million so far, own a big new Sun Ray applications development market, and have been able to hand $900 million of the cash they spent on MySQL...
- Tags: MySQL, Data Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Sun Ray, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Sun reseller contacts
- I recently asked readers to contact their local Sun resellers, ask about Sun Rays and Coolthreads products for their own use, and then tell me how the resellers reacted. I got some red hot email out of this - but of course this kind of thing self selects for negativity,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, CDW Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- From the Sun reseller trenches
- A former Sun reseller tells it like it is. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Reseller, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Country X, SGD, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Smart Cards, Sales, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray
- Still pushing the obvious: Sun RayGreat for the environment to!Lasting up to 20 years and pulling 8-10 watts ( inc. network overhead ) reduces materials energy and waste... And once you buy more than IRO 50, cheaper purchase price, running costs, support maintenance updates and no upgrades...So why would any...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Anton, Sun Ray, security, Sun Microsystems Inc., attack
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray
- Can a million blonds really be wrong? How about fifty million corporate IT users? by Paul Murphy
- Tags: PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Sun Ray, Laptop Computer, Computer, Thin Clients, Notebooks, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Resurrecting E-voting
- To make e-voting work you need a voting machine that can't be corrupted without setting off alarms - Sun Rays fit that requirement, are cheap, and allow for easy central auditing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Audit, Sun Ray, Machine, E-voting, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- An argument about switching costs
- An argument about switching costsJust a question...If you're going to be using Windows desktop apps with Sun Ray's, doesn't that mean you'll have to deploy Windows Terminal Server too?Why not drop the cost of Sun Ray and just use WTS (if you're paying for it anyway)?RiskThe core of Dr. Dogs...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Switching Costs, WTS, information technology, Murph, Sun Ray, window
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- An argument about switching costs
- When someone signing himself as "Dr. Dog" attacked the Sun Ray desktop solution recently he made the three most common mistakes - confusing applications with applications delivery, invoking the sunk cost fallacy, and valuing IT risk over business risk. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly doubleTypos in original?Usually PR statements have been carefully reviewed by enough people to assure that misspellings and missing letters have been caught.Is this another example of Sun presenting itself to the public haphazardly?Not conceivableQuoting:It’s conceivable that Sun could have shipped only three Sun...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, revenue
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Risks, real and perceived, are key drivers in the open source versus proprietary decision - and boil down to this: making an open source decision for mission critical software is also a decision to develop at least some in-house expertise with respect to the application's internals. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Hiring, Wintel, Data Center, Open Source, Information Technology, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sun Ray, Development Environment, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Help Desk, UNIX, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...
- Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, nich, Sun Ray, mission critical, institute, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., research institute
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- A lot of the wintel vs Unix argument is cast in terms of this hardware or that feature but the reality is that risk and compliance, not functionality or direct cost, are the critical decision drivers both right now and for the immediate future. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Security, Comcast Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Downtime, Sun Ray, Argument, Telecommuting, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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