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Sun Discovers Dumb Terminals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the o-in-old-economy dept.

Yahoo has a story about how Sun is practicing a sort of floating workforce - many employees have no permanent desks, they just come in and log on to a dumb terminal, err, thin client. Besides being a sneaky way to encourage employees to arrive ever earlier at work, it probably is cheaper to run the business off a few large Sun servers - at least for Sun.

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  1. DISCOVERS? by elmegil · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Come on I thought this was supposed to be NEWS. Sun's been doing this for, oh, about 3 years now. Some do fine, some hate it (raises hand). Here's an interesting thought for ya though: how much do you think all that dedicated office space for people who are supposed to be at customer sites selling or servicing equipment would have added to the pain of the last two years since the bubble burst?

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  2. Re:Real brilliant. by elmegil · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Insightful, for someone who doesn't have half a clue of how the system works? There's a java-based tool that lets you say "I want to know where Jim is sitting today", and it shows you on a bloody floor plan. How stupid do you have to be that you can't read a floor plan?

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    7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
  3. Re:Real brilliant. by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but what we really want to know is - and we know you can tell us - how does McNealy's dick taste?