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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (42310)3/23/2001 8:58:41 PM
From: Tom C  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
To take the analogy a little further, the TV is just the thin client.
Ok, I can agree with this.
Sun sells thin clients but they also sell the fat servers that drive them.

There is a lot a tension between centralization and decentralization. In the beginning there was the mainframe and the MIS department but people revolted against this model preferring their own printers and computers to run their spread sheets without having to schedule it with the IS department. As computing power was given to the end user the IS department focused on the network (the network is the computer) trying to reign in this phenomenon. It’s all about control. To me the idea of FAT servers is like communism, a decent idea but horrible in practice. Democracy dictates a distributed computing environment.

Are you a SysAdmin?

Tom
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