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To: QwikSand who wrote (22263)	11/4/1999 3:36:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Qwikster, I responded to each of your points: 1. App environment; equal or better - there is no thin office suite yet to compete with MSoffice - there are hundreds of other productivity and anti-productivity apps available for Windows making it a richer environment and hence a more pragmatic one to select; and yes anti-productivity (games) does drive sales - to talk/interoperate (a new word?) with the world I need Windows else I will spend half my life doing document conversions or explaining to people how to import and re-format them. 2. Security - 128 bit SSL takes some major CPU cycles; especially if we're yanking up a few megabytes of application or it's data - I'm talking more about sensitive data sitting "out there somewhere" , this is especially true in the U.S. where there is ever fear of a NSA peaking into things that they shouldn't be - granted a point to you ; possibly guaranteed central backup 3. Net Bandwidth - partly true, BUT most intranet infrastructures are 10MB ethernet, stick a couple hundred Sun Ray's on the same subnet and you've got bigtime congestion. 4. Stability Still stand by my point. Windows is an evolved desktop just as Solaris is an evolved server OS. It will take a great deal of time to develop and stabilize any Sun Ray desktop solution to the level of Windows. p.s. some people can be productive without having a net connection ... in the thin model if the server or net goes down everyone is standing around the water cooler since they're desktop is broken without a network. 5. Cost/benefit IMHO the $200 extra for a PC would be dwarfed by the $productivity gained by the workers. Since PC + Windows currently is the premier desktop environment I am destined to have a wider range of software to use to improve my workers and business efficiency. All just IMHO of course. Cheers James