thin clients

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, David J Patrick wrote:

> Whatdya mean, Rob ? Sunray = bad ?

No, actually I quite liked them[1], but they never seemed to get a
foothold in the market.  I got the impression that either Sun didn't
market them well or didn't market them to the right people[2].

[1] The installation was alot messier than it needed to be.  I installed
quite a few Sunray servers earlier on (mostly on to E450s, etc) and they
would dump stuff all over the filesystem including some demos and toys
that weren't needed.  I was doing a lot of stuff with thinclients in those
days too and contrasted this to how I setup XTerminals to boot -
everything neatly put away in the one place.

[2] We borrowed to Sunrays from sun to demo on a client site once.  When I
got to the site, with them still boxed up, I noticed one of them had the
word "broken" written on the side.  The client and I noticed this at the
same time.  This went over well with the client :)

The early installation procedure would point blank fail to install using
an le (10Mbit/sec) NIC on the server.  Unfortunately this meant I had to
jump hoops to get a test environment going before I went out on a client
site to do my first Sunray install back in 2000.

Cheers,
	Rob

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