21 Jan
2010
21 Jan
'10
12:15 a.m.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:23 PM, David Griffith wrote:
What bugs me about those Sun Rays is that Sun nickles and dimes you
to death on the licenses and such. I'm looking at a thin client
solution for my employer and so far Sun Rays don't look very good
from that perspective.
Ask your rep...they waive pretty much all of it if you ask them.
That said, I don't know of very many installations which have
actually licensed it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Now that Apple is also x86, there are no more
interesting home
computers,
just variations on a theme with the same basic internals.
True. But there are plenty of good ones still available used.
Lacking that...a decent small Sun machine with a bunch of Sun Ray
terminals makes for a good central computer for home use. They
don't do streaming (steaming?) video all that well, but they will
soon (they're getting better in that area).
USB peripherals work...cameras, printers, thumb drives, some PDAs,
etc. Sound works. They're tiny and silent. This makes them
perfect for home applications. A decent 1U or 2U machine to act
as a server can be had for a few hundred bucks at most.