So, a couple of friends and I are in the process of putting together a business – and trying to do it the right way.  In addition to management duties, the bulk of the IT tasks falls to me – from overseeing DB and web design, to network management.  For part of the network, specifically the computers used for order placement, I have been strongly considering thin clients.  In fact, thanks to the magic of craigslist, I picked up a old Sun Ray machine today for $30 from an ex-Sun employee.  Still, there are many protocols and many thin clients out there – and while I rather like the Sun Rays, deciding between the various solutions is, well, a pain.

Then I found this.

Thin client computing whitepapers. Very nice.

One thing I had considered – using a solution like Thinstation – is out.  The real cost savings in thin client implementations is not the cheaper terminals – server costs will make up for it – but the ease of manageability (reducing man-hours expended) and reliability from using 15W appliances.

Still, this weekend will be spent installing Linux or Solaris 10, and then Sun Ray Software 4 and making a small version of a potential order system. Not nice, but better to work out the kinks now rather than when paying for a commerical lease and waiting for deployment to finish so we can start taking in money.

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