The Divorce and Going Foward

I apologize to any of you who read my blog and were awaiting further posts. The fact of the matter is that Wyse and the Wyse Guy have agreed on a parting of ways. As you can see from my previous posts, my goal is to create a hardware agnostic client environment which enables any of a number of different client virtualization methodologies. The Wyse sales leadership finds that this approach would not be an enhancer to Wyse hardware sales, but rather a competitive offering which would be a detriment. As you can see from the Wyse website, the company focus is now Cloud Client Computing (CCC) which is really oriented around Desktop Cloud Computing and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) virtualization offerings. While I believe that both SaaS and DaaS are the most efficient forms of client computing, the infrastructure to provide these offerings is initially expensive and the applications rarely translate perfectly to these environments (look at the difference between MS Office and Office Web Apps). As the world awaits these environments' build out, the client hardware technology is already being developed and put in the user's mainstream portfolio. Netbooks, Tablet PCs, SmartPhones and other UMPC devices are becoming more and more commonplace both at home and in the office. Thus, software solutions which make these devices more secure and enable these devices to be multi-purposes are the order of the day. Wyse offers both streaming technology and PC repurposement technology to make better use of these upcoming technologies and make virtualization more of a mainstream solution. That said, do not expect the Wyse sales team or partners to sell you these solutions. While Tarkan Maner (current Wyse CEO) is definitely a proponent of this movement, none of his executive team back him up with more than words. If a customer specifically asks for one of the non-hardware solutions, they will first be pursuaded that they need a full hardware solution and then be told that they are required to purchase certain minimum amounts of software even on a trial basis. I have seen license opportunities on software pushed away or just completely ignored by both the local sales rep and the VP of Sales. I stepped in where possible, but even I had to concentrate on the larger opportunities. Thus I gave up on this executive team as a lost cause. That said, I have not given up on thin computing. Thus, I am looking for a new moniker under which to pen my posts. Anyone reading this should let me know what they believe is an appropriate name to laud thin computing, desktop cloud computing and DaaS.