[THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:42:38 -0000
When you say hardware, are you referring to the terminals?
If so, when I first put them in, here, in 98, the only expectations I
had on replacing them, were when they were no longer capable of
providing the very prescripted environment deployed.
So rather than thinking in X years, I'll replace them, my rationale is
simply in the next X years will I have reason to need to replace them -
and unless something changed WRT the demands, then it's unlikely that I
would need to.
The reality being that I will not need to do anything with them up to
the point when that part of the business, is finally operationally taken
over by their new owners. As to what happens then isn't truly a concern
for me, but will be sometime early next year, meaning that they will
have been in place 8 years.
Were those locations to be continuing as part of my company's business,
I've no current reason to think I'd need to rip them out in the next
couple of years, so seeing 10 years out seems perfectly reasonable, for
at least some scenarios.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Smith
> Sent: 01 November 2005 10:36
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
>
> Sorry to be slightly serious, but quick poll; how long do
> those using thin clients expect their hardware to last? Our
> planning currently assumes 7 years, and I know that this is
> all terribly dependent on what you're doing now and in the
> future, but it would be interesting to know.
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 November 2005 09:20
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
>
> Indeed! ;-)
>
> "Hoverboards? They were just a pipe dream, son."
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Smith
> > Sent: 31 October 2005 15:58
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
> >
> > I thought we established last week that Neil lives in the North of
> > england. That they've progressed past water-mills and
> cotton factories
> > is impressive enough.:)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com [mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 31 October 2005 15:26
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
> >
> >
> > And are there still dinosaurs and cavemen where you
> work Neil? ; )
> >
> > "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Well the 10 year thing may not be so ridiculous.
> >
> > All the Winterms I deployed in the field,
> dating back to 98, are the
> > original items (a small number may have been replaced -
> like-for-like
> > by engineers but all are the same model).
> >
> > Up until very recently, I had some of the
> original server hardware
> > in use. The main reason for decommissioning some of it (and I'm
> > talking about 200 Mhz Pentium Pro server hardware) is simply
> > management costs, and datacentre real estate.
> >
> > But the hardware still works and supports very
> similar loads to the
> > original implementation. It's only when you increase OS or
> application
> > demands that things become obsolete. But the investment my company
> > made in the initial end user hardware has not needed
> replacement. Nor
> > will it likely do, before the implementation is removed. And that
> > won't be far off 10 years.
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