The bulk of the desktops and a good portion of the servers are in the Science and Engineering node. The University Computing Services use Sun servers to run their infrastructure and network management services. We wanted to take advantage of our established support infrastructure. As a result, the Science Engineering node's large installed Sun base at SUNY Buffalo coexists peacefully with the NT-based Academic Services and other campus resources. This UBiquity model has been extremely successful.
Students love it.
They can do all their computing in one box. Sometimes there is standing room only. For example, a molecular biology student can log onto the UBiquity environment, access a PC program assigned by her instructor that is running on a Network Terminal server, perform analyses, access any of the university's central print locations, and save her work to her UNIX account, in addition to accessing her mail, the Worldwide Web, and Academic Services, all within the same environment. We never considered another solution. The Sun environment is where we want to be.