The NC: Moving Beyond The Cost Of Ownership
The network computer (NC) won't make it in corporate networks. At least not in the way you think it will. Don't get me wrong, the NC has wide applicability and relevance far beyond its immediate target--the Wintel desktop. Standards and portable applications have been my own personal hot button for years, and it's refreshing to see the market validate open systems to a greater or lesser degree. </font><br><br>However, at issue here is the fact that most corporate shops and industry outlets look at the total cost of ownership as the be-all and end-all of the NC. True, user support, technical infrastructure and administration are less onerous in the NC scenario, but by how much? The NC may reduce these problems, but it will not eliminate them. <p> CMP Network Computing
ReadClimbing The Corporate Food Chain
Your complaining is giving me a headache. If I hear one more time about how management never understands the network group, I will run screaming into the wilderness, never to return. Get real. In between doing real </font><br><br> work, all I hear from certain network types is a never-ending stream of "if only we had enough money" or "if only we could buy the latest the-network-is-where-I-want-to-go-today techno toy." After 90 seconds of this, on flips a filtering switch in my head (it's the same one that filters out the videos my four-year-old daughter watches endlessly), and after about 40 minutes or so--brevity is undervalued--my attention is directed back to the conversation where the network jock at hand still is going on about, "When will they...?" and "If they just...?" Enough. CMP Network Computing
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