[K12OSN] Intrigue !!!!

[norbert]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the info, I did not know! I believed that these were intended 
form Solaris x86........ well go figure...

regards
norbert

cwt137 at yahoo.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Sun does make x86 servers that have Opteron CPUs and
>run windows. Look here:
>
>http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/
>
>near the middle to bottom of page.
>
>Chris
>
>--- norbert <bear2bar at netscape.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I know that this is off topic but I had to share
>>this "gem"......
>>
>>The school board into which we have had fantastic
>>success with K12ltsp 
>>in the schools has "announced" that they will
>>replace at their cost the 
>>teacher computers, most of which are circa P-I !!!,
>>with new Windows 
>>thin-clients.
>>
>>Now the "kicker", after arguing with us that their
>>strategic direction 
>>was to centralize all the servers, hence why the
>>board was NOT 
>>supporting K12LTSP deployment, the board is offering
>>to set-up & install 
>>locally SUN Servers to run the Windows thin-clients.
>>
>>First comment - how in hell do you run a Windows
>>thin-client from a SUN 
>>server and second why would anyone in their right
>>mind agree to this.
>>
>>enjoy
>>norbert
>>
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