So it's no surprise that Sun is in the process of rolling out 3000 JavaStations on its internal network. The implementation of JavaStations will affect people from the bottom of the organisation right through to the top. Scott McNealy is to have a network computer. An engineer, he said, needs computing power to be fully productive. Even the lower cost of the JavaStation, combined with savings in network administration, don't outweigh a drop in productivity.
People are curious.
They want to try the JavaStations. There are some important benefits in getting the machines onto managers' desks in the technical areas. There is no faster way to get applications to show up than to give the JavaStations to technical managers. According to Baehr, if they need something they will go out and create it for themselves. Some users could find the shift a bit of a culture shock.