[H-GEN] Thin client options in 2014

[Benjamin Fowler]

On 6 February 2014 11:43, Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> So... you run a nation-wide business that opted years ago for a
> thin client solution based on Sunrays. You have close to 1000 of
> these units spread across multiple offices running Ubuntu desktop.
>
> Oracle, who we all know bought Sun Microsystems years ago, have
> decided to no longer continue the Sunray line.
>
> You, and all your IT staff, harbour various levels of revulsion at the
> thought of reintroducing anything MS into the business. (apart from
> the occasional recalcitrant who has convinced you in the past to
> allow some Windows box for some nefarious purpose or other).
>
> How do you move forward...?
>
>
It would completely depend on the apps you're running. Here, most of our
business systems (e.g. OpenAir, Outlook, SalesFarce) are all cloud-hosted.
Google Apps for a lot of people is perfectly serviceable as an office'
solution and has several important advantages. Even some IDEs are
cloud-hosted these days. Cloud-hosted Outlook, for us, actually runs way
smoother than operating it ourselves and the users like it.

So if that's the case, then the choice of desktop platform becomes
increasingly irrelevant, and you could then consider moving to a
combination of BYOD/cheap Chromeboxen/whatever.
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