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Trying to clarify the Sun Ray difference

Frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht had this to say last week in response to my comment that the Sun Ray does no processing and isn't, therefore, a client-server client: thin, fat, or otherwise: Smart, Thick, Thin, DisplayIt's all word games. Depending on how you define...

Tags: Sun, Security, Linux, Hardware, Government, Deploying Sun Rays, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-17

And what exactly is wrong with that?

Just in case you missed it.. heres an entire exchange between frequent contributer Carl Rapson and some "murph_z" guy from last weeks discussion about what users want: Carl first: Id go further "Why? because they just dont care about any if it - all...

Tags: Sun, Deploying Sun Rays, Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Deploying Sun Rays: an introduction

Deploying Sun Rays: an introduction*Must* ...*control*...*fists*...*of*...*death*...I will reserve judgment on your articles - until my response is printed later in the week. There certainly are some good reasons to use SunRays - as there were reasons to use SPARC SLCs a decade plus years ago.Good luck in Alberta! Oh the...

Tags: Servers, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Deploying Sun Rays

Discussion threads 2006-07-25

Additional Resources

Are thin clients still for me?

Are thin clients still for me?I'm sure Paul Murphy can helpHe advocates SunRays as the thin client de jour. You are right about the SPOF single point of failure problem - but the MTBF rate may be insignificantly small. Wireless networks are hard for kids to mess with, as are...

Tags: Thin clients, thin client, server, multimedia

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

How and why to use Sun Ray

How and why to use Sun RayGood Lord! That's a long post, Murph!It's going to take a lot of free time just to parse it. I don't suppose you considered breaking it up into digestible chunks?Define your audience, pleaseAre you targeting people who haven't yet made a decision to use...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, Sun Ray, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-05

Taking the Devil's dollar

Taking the Devil's dollarLeadershipMy problem here is that "inspired" or "motiving" leadership can often inspire or motivate people to foolish or criminal acts.Surely good management should be based on persuading people by rational argument?This is one of the reasons I am always suspicious of organisations that use the term "software...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Leadership SunRays, SunRay, leadership, Microsoft Office, server

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Deploying Sun Rays: an introduction

[Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] This chapter is intended to define and describe the thin client and smart display architectures as implemented using Sun Ray...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Packing and moving

I'm going home! specifically, moving permanently back to Alberta from Ontario. By the time you read this, the winface.com server will be on a truck and my family and I will be zipping across the northern U.S. annoying various friends and acquaintances along the way. As part of getting...

Tags: smart display architecture, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-07-24

The Gartner Rules: Linux, Sun Ray, and Windows/XP

The Myths About Desktop Linux Persist, or, at least, that's the title of a Gartner Group "Managment Update" filed on April 13th of last year. Here's the thumbnail: The benefits of a Linux operating system OS in a desktop environment continue to be overhyped. Contributing...

Tags: Linux, Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2006-03-27