Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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Sun doesn't even really target admins, they target the corporate buyers of large companies.
These guys will never talk about how badly mozilla or other screen saver works. They'll get some techies to prepare a custom build (in any case, even with a great desktop distro), with the mission to deal with any menial problem.
What they want is the "management utilities" which is a major reducing factor in the TCO equation + support from a large multinational (doesn't matter if it's crap) so that they can present something to senior management, with all the management check boxes ticked. And the problems mentionned in the review probably wouldn't have a check box anyway.