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From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Each major section in BIT ends with a case study - this is the Cutter Mills case from 2001 illustrating the governance issues associated with appliance computing. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Paul Murphy, Cost, Supply Chain, Application, Marketing, Smart Display, PC, Information Technology, Production, Vendor, Project Manager, IBM AS/400, Product, Customer, Order, ERP, Supplier, Plan, Finance, Failure, Decision, Systems Management, Cutter Mills, Cutter, Changes, Bugtoaster, 4Cost Information, 5Estimates, Actuals, Cost Difference, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Supply Chain Management (SCM), UNIX, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-24

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

When you look at the iSeries what you see is business computing as it should have been about 1976 - it's the path not taken, the thing that works for business but not IT - and today's costs (although the data is actually from 2004/5) reflect that. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Smart Display, IBM iSeries, Phone, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Learning from Walmart

Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...

Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IT Development, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., Murph

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

And what exactly is wrong with that?

Just in case you missed it.. heres an entire exchange between frequent contributer Carl Rapson and some "murph_z" guy from last weeks discussion about what users want: Carl first: Id go further "Why? because they just dont care about any if it - all...

Tags: Sun, Deploying Sun Rays, Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Re-labelling Sun Ray to sell

Suns Sun Ray smart display has an unhappy marketing history in that Sun sells the thing in volume to defence and other genuinely security conscious environments, but has never made much headway with it in other natural markets such as schools and businesses. A big part of the reason...

Tags: Enterprise Policy, General, Sun

Blog posts 2007-03-05

How and why to use Sun Ray

I've just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is booming. During the move we ran a series of eight chapter summaries, or notes to myself, for a possible book on how and why to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Futures and alternatives

The Sun Ray's big strength: server based everything, is also its biggest weakness. For example, home use of Sun Rays works beautifully for most business applications because the bandwidth and server computing loads for those are relatively minor. What happens, however, when the consumer wants to watch a movie is...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Smart Display, Sun Ray

Blog posts 2006-08-04

Managing the Sun Ray business architecture

[Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] There's an old saying to the effect that a fish rots from the head, but...

Tags: Thin clients, Sun Microsystems Inc., thin client, Smart Display, information technology, Sun Ray

Blog posts 2006-08-01

Why change (IT perspective)?

[Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] This section extends the three organizational scenarios from the previous piece to discuss the risks and benefits associated with the...

Tags: thin client, information technology, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-07-27

Costs relative to client-server

[Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] This section introduces the three cost scenarios to be used throughout the text and explains...

Tags: Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Deploying Sun Rays: an introduction

[Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] This chapter is intended to define and describe the thin client and smart display architectures as implemented using Sun Ray...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Packing and moving

I'm going home! specifically, moving permanently back to Alberta from Ontario. By the time you read this, the winface.com server will be on a truck and my family and I will be zipping across the northern U.S. annoying various friends and acquaintances along the way. As part of getting...

Tags: smart display architecture, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-07-24

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)UtopiaYou are solving a problem while ignoring others. You are working WAY down the application stack at the hardware layer. Whether that is the biggest "pain point" is of much discussion.What does the rest of your infrastructure look like? Those servers that are running SunRay software...

Tags: Servers, SunRay, server, Smart Display, job

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Smart displays and IT productivity

So if smart displays are so wonderfully empowering on the user side, what do they do to IT? Do Unix right, and they enable you to simplify IT operations, reduce your IT costs, and practice leadership instead of management. Notice, however, that displays like Sun Rays will deliver Windows server...

Tags: information technology, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-05-25

Smart Displays and Productivity

Smart Displays and ProductivityYou can get the same functionalityas thin clients by using L'UNIX workstations. This approach removes the EXPENSIVE server and computer platform, and allows for productivity when the network falls down.You only have to think in terms of distributed - which seems to be beyond everyone's ability ....

Tags: Thin clients, Microsoft Windows, SunRay, thin client, Smart Display

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Smart displays and user productivity

As regular readers know, I maintain that using a Unix/Smart display architecture allows organizations to centralise processing, devolve control to users, and gain significant productivity benefits over client-server users. Today's rant, and tomorrow's too, actually; is going to be in defence of this position. First, lets clarify terms. A smart...

Tags: Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-05-24

So what's a smart display?

So what's a smart display?Why did the fail?What was wrong with products that do processing locally?You've said that they don't work, but haven't given any solid reasons why.You mention tampering, but anything capable of rendering windows is going to have some sort of client-side OS that can be tampered with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, server, Smart Display, user control, dumb terminal, PC

Discussion threads 2005-09-23

So what's a smart display?

Basically it's a graphics terminal whose entire operations are controlled from the server. Bootp, now DHCP, was originally developed to allow diskless devices to boot an OS from a network server. Thus Sun's ELC diskless workstation, circa 1988, ran a full SunOS implementation locally, but loaded it from a central...

Tags: NCD, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Explora Pro, Smart Display

Blog posts 2005-09-23

Network Computing: the Enterprise answer

Last week's talkback discussions on what Linux needs to do to gain significant market share produced a wide range of interesting ideas -including a few I hadn't thought about before. In response I plan to try to produce a synthesis - a longer article that pulls it all together and...

Tags: mainframe, Carl Rapson

Blog posts 2005-09-19

Microsoft abandons Smart Display effort

Microsoft abandons Smart Display effortMS and Abandon Ware?No way......He HEMessage has been deleted.DRM and EULA the ultimate problem here?"the technology locked out the host PC when in use. Microsoft has said variously that this is a licensing issue and a resource management problem." Just wondering aloud here. Could it...

Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2004-01-06