Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question 450
theodp writes "If virtual desktops are so great, asks Jonathan Eunice, then why isn't everyone using them? However encouraged folks are by the progress virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has made, and however enthused they may be about extending the wins of server virtualization over into the desktop realm, you don't see analysts and developers eating the virtual desktop dog food. And even the folks you meet from Citrix, Microsoft, Quest, VMware, and Wyse — the people selling VDI — use traditional 'fat' notebooks. So, are you using virtual desktops? Why, or why not?" I wonder how long the abbreviation VDI will stick around.
I had the same issue as a psychologist. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I had the same issue as a psychologist. (Score:2, Funny)
So I moved to Europe. Now all my clients are thin and as a side-effect my sex-life improved greatly.
You're doing it wrong.
Re:Security (Score:5, Funny)
Attempt to fill in IT service request to replace switch. Realise need computer to do that. Pick up phone, but forgotten how to use. Wander hallways seeking IT support monkey. Monkeys elusive, cunning, always escape behind cubicle. Finally corner one, demand support. Monkey needs key to server room but IT manager must authorise taking key off hook. IT manager away doing Six Sigma Course. Monkey suggest fill in IT service request. Escape into air duct.
Reality of corporate environment not always match SLA. Rogerborg sad, but must speak truth, even if delivered in cursive.
Re:Security (Score:5, Funny)
Furthermore, queue... dick-measuring about how an hour of downtime for 16 users is totally unacceptable in "the enterprise" and how my users need five nines uptime, (even though all they do is play minesweeper and write reports). Insinuate anyone who would tolerate more than a minute a decade of switch downtime is a homeless, shoeless, neckbearded GNU/hippie. Quote federal regulations about reliability for nuclear reactor primary safety systems, vaguely hint that the stuff my users are working on is just as important/dangerous (it isn't; it's reports and minesweeper, but this is slashdot and appearances must be maintained). Cast aspersions upon the qualifications of anyone who thinks thin clients are reliable despite the crippling switch failure issue.
Re:Security (Score:5, Funny)
You know I was starting to get offended by your post on behalf of all the IT "monkeys" out there. Until I realized that sometimes it really is that stupid and my credibility was shot because I was eating a banana while reading your post...