Sun Microsystems for several years now has been working on this concept. Using the Sunray workstations and a secure ID card, the idea was that employees could work at any office, at any time. Interesting that on the used Sun market, Sunrays are pretty much worthless. (right up there in demand with the E10K platform) Saw a demo in spring of 2001 at the Burlington, MA campus. As I recall, matching data storage and processing speed demands with each user was still a concern.
Article from Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may 2004/tc20040519_3643_tc024.htm Points out that AMD is regaining market share. Nice to see. It helps that HP is an AMD shop. Also points out AMD 64 bit chip has the gamers all agog, and Intel so far with nothing to compare.
Related article is here at Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may 2004/tc20040510_2149_tc024.htm I think IBM has taken several lessons to heart from its prior go-around with Microsoft. For instance, the ability of this rendition to run on Windows, as well as most other OS's out there provides a huge amount of flexibility to IT managers. W2000 is looking dated, Longhorn not coming out until late '06 or '07...this could make it an interesting race.
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Unless of course they can have it show abject gibbering terror the first time it enters a rotary.
Sun Microsystems for several years now has been working on this concept. Using the Sunray workstations and a secure ID card, the idea was that employees could work at any office, at any time. Interesting that on the used Sun market, Sunrays are pretty much worthless. (right up there in demand with the E10K platform) Saw a demo in spring of 2001 at the Burlington, MA campus. As I recall, matching data storage and processing speed demands with each user was still a concern.
Article from Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may 2004/tc20040519_3643_tc024.htm Points out that AMD is regaining market share. Nice to see. It helps that HP is an AMD shop. Also points out AMD 64 bit chip has the gamers all agog, and Intel so far with nothing to compare.
Related article is here at Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may 2004/tc20040510_2149_tc024.htm I think IBM has taken several lessons to heart from its prior go-around with Microsoft. For instance, the ability of this rendition to run on Windows, as well as most other OS's out there provides a huge amount of flexibility to IT managers. W2000 is looking dated, Longhorn not coming out until late '06 or '07...this could make it an interesting race.