I agree with you that SunRay brings some nice things. Especailly, reduction in IT management cost is big. However, the biggest problem I (and my customers) have had with SunRay is that it runs on Solaris. Most users are familar with Windows as a desktop OS. It's sad but true. Citrix (or whatever else Windows based thin client system) can give you most of the benefit you mentioned, and it runs Windows. I am not sure how SunRay can beat that.
There's nothing wrong with MA making this move to get a bargain deal from MS.
For one thing it would save tax money. But more importantly, as this move gets proven to work, more organizations will follow. MS will need to keep giving great deals to every one of them.
Eventually, it will drive down the price of Office so much that it doesn't make sense to keep the.doc format proprietary. They'll comply with the open standard, or they'll just drop Office product and move on. Either way, users win.
It doesn't bother me. Governments will always waste my tax money for one thing or another anyway. Helping people who suffered from a flood is a better way of using my money than, say, attacking Iraq for oil so that the people at the top of the government can get richer.
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I agree with you that SunRay brings some nice things. Especailly, reduction in IT management cost is big. However, the biggest problem I (and my customers) have had with SunRay is that it runs on Solaris. Most users are familar with Windows as a desktop OS. It's sad but true. Citrix (or whatever else Windows based thin client system) can give you most of the benefit you mentioned, and it runs Windows. I am not sure how SunRay can beat that.
For one thing it would save tax money. But more importantly, as this move gets proven to work, more organizations will follow. MS will need to keep giving great deals to every one of them.
Eventually, it will drive down the price of Office so much that it doesn't make sense to keep the .doc format proprietary. They'll comply with the open standard, or they'll just drop Office product and move on. Either way, users win.
It doesn't bother me. Governments will always waste my tax money for one thing or another anyway. Helping people who suffered from a flood is a better way of using my money than, say, attacking Iraq for oil so that the people at the top of the government can get richer.