[H-GEN] Thin client options in 2014

[Gary Curtis]

The users are almost all using OpenOffice for office documents and Zimbra
as their email client. Many/most of your business systems are browser
based to servers on your WAN.

Any wholesale move to cloud based systems fills management with dread.

Gary
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Gary Curtis      t: 07 3801 1311    m: 04 1455 1488



On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Benjamin Fowler <ben.fowler.bjf at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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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