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Skriven 2005-09-18 17:19:42 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7204 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: The enterprise desktop PC is obsolete: what you should do about it
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From: Ellen K. <72322.1016@compuserve.com>

The consultants who are supposed to be doing our new enterprise system are
doing it web-based and I predict a full-scale user revolt when they see the UI.
 Can you imagine having to select a product from a list of 3000 where you can't
type the first letter of the product code to at least get to that section of
the list?

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:13:16 -0400, Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com> wrote in
message <iq6ki1htsqgvbp0qq14q374ol8ec43j7gc@4ax.com>:

>
>http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4595926308.html
>
>===
>The enterprise desktop PC is a dying entity.
>
>Microsoft's method of licensing and dominating PCs -- and thus the
>enterprise desktop -- began over 20 years ago. Microsoft entered
>enterprises inside the Trojan Horse of the PC, which offered individual
>users the ability to operate their own applications and control their
>own data. Compared to the days when mainframes and minicomputers
>dominated, the ability of the PC to give users local control gave uses a
>profound sense of freedom.
>
>There has been much debate and discussion regarding the Linux desktop
>and Microsoft's hold on the market. Yet in all the debate, few have
>expressed the reality that is slowly permeating businesses and
>organizations on a global scale. Brian Profitt, LinuxToday managing
>editor, may have said it best in his observation that the definition of
>"desktop" is constantly changing, and perhaps the word itself is a
>misnomer.
>
>Evolution of the desktop
>
>The desktop, as it applies to independent PCs running applications, was
>once something enriching, something positive for the user. Over the
>years, the power we had as desktop users has substantially declined. I'm
>not referring to the GUIs mind you, I'm talking about the overall OS
>experience. As the years passed and more and more complexity entered the
>desktop environment, businesses found an ever increasing burden of
>managing those independent desktops.
>
>The once-mighty PC is now seen as a threat, vulnerable to trojans and
>viruses that spread to other PCs across the network. The dominance of
>software licensing schemes further exacerbates the emerging perception
>that a business desktop PC is dangerous and burdensome.
>
>Today, we lock down these PCs, control them through a central IT group,
>and call them "managed desktops." Ironically, and almost laughably, the
>personal computer in business is rapidly becoming nothing more than a
>repository of applications that are subject to complicated licensing
>schemes and controlled by a central server.
>
>And on top of this reality, in almost every business environment, all of
>the actual data resides on the network file systems. Much of the work
>done day to day comes from NT servers, or off of Exchange servers. The
>desktop PC does little more than drive applications and cost money.
>
>At the same time that the wonderful freeing power of a personal computer
>ended, another paradigm shift began: taking all aspects of the system
>into account, the cost of the hardware fell below that of the software.
>
>In short, I can now purchase a powerful new desktop PC for far less than
>the price of the Windows OS and application software that would be
>needed to run it. In this new paradigm we have a profound irony. The
>desktop is now an inhibitor and hurdle in the business environment.
>
>Having hundreds of individual PCs running applications that must be
>controlled and managed has thus returned us to an situation (in the
>enterprise) in which computers are costly, and few people are able to be
>in full control of their systems....
>===
>
>
>Funny, I was talking with an IT person just a few days ago about moving
>a lot of the PC functionality back into the computer room.  The topic of
>discussion was, just how much electronics do you really need to remain
>on a desktop?  I said mouse, keyboard, speakers, monitor, IP-capable
>KVM.
>
>
>  /m

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