Sun Microsystems has made another bid to enter the thin client market with the launch of its Sun Ray device - an enterprise appliance designed to run applications, not from a hard drive, but straight from an Internet server.
Application service providers (ASPs) will fundamentally alter the client/server architecture, finally kickstarting thin client computing and creating unprecedented demands for bandwidth, according to guests on this week's Big Question programme.
However, with desktop PCs still costing up to £5,000 a year to buy and maintain, the total cost of ownership (TCO) argument, which claims that thin clients can cut the cost of providing IT facilities for employees, remains a persuasive one.
On computers running Windows 98 and Windows ME, it merely identifies vulnerable spots. The fixes focus on versions of the database that run on network servers and on another version, called SQL Server Desktop Engine, that runs on desktop PCs.
In particular it is keen to position its Sun Ray thin-client devices as the green alternative to desktop PCs. Too few tech professionals have a handle on what their company's energy usage is, and this must change if any real progress is going to be...
The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin...
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