[THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
- From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:36:04 -0000
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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