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The top Sun Ray myths

The top Sun Ray mythsInteresting, but ignores the fact that Sun Ray is proprietary protocolAn interesting summary and provides a good foundation for any discussion relating to thin client solutions or Server Based Computing as a whole.However, it was not pointed out that Sun Ray utilizes a proprietary protocol and...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, Network technology, Sun Ray, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

XDS - a new take on access virtualization

XDS - a new take on access virtualizationisn't this just like a SunRay?Sun offered this technology years ago. The Sun Ray is just a remote rendering of your screen sent from a server. That suffered from high network demand when it was launched, but as network costs have...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Ray, SCO Group Inc., SunRay, Tarantella Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., network, server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

A consequence of convergence?

A consequence of convergence?Maybe it's that off-line capabilitywhich is - NOTHING. The network goes down, the thin-client stares stupidly into space. I guess "The network is the computer" is true in this case.With a good distributed computer topology, that 3.2 Ghz desktop computer and all its kin - can be...

Tags: computer, network, server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, SunRay, WTF

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

Zune and the uplift wars

Zune and the uplift warsBack on planet Earth...So how do you make a Blackberry or similar device work with the Sun Ray architecture?Roger's answer of "the Sun Ray has 4 USB ports, so you can connect a Blackberry to it" made obvious sense. Your answer implies a flaw in...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, SunRay

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

Re-labelling Sun Ray to sell

Re-labelling Sun Ray to sellCall it whatever you want.I doubt it will change the dismal sales one iota. All the attempts to roll back the clock to the days of dumb terminals hanging off of a mainframe have failed and will continue to do so.Can it do M$ Office?No?...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Servers, desktop, Next!, dumb terminal, Xen, server, Microsoft Windows XP, SunRay

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

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

Futures and alternatives

Futures and alternativesPricesSunRays are CHEAP (at least the 1.0 versions). You can buy them for less than $10 each - shipped (no keyboard, mouse or monitor - which you probably do have). Even a LTSP solution requires a PC - and I don't think you can find a PC for...

Tags: Corporate communications, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., SunRay, video

Discussion threads 2006-08-04

Distributed computing - the promise unbroken

I asked frequent contributor Roger Ramjet to write a guest blog presenting and defending his idea that distributed Unix makes more sense than my smart display approach. Here's his contribution - read it carefully and I think you'll see we're not so far apart even if he is right to...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, NETWORKING, Unix, mainframe, network, SunRay, PC, client-server, computer, server, distributed computing

Blog posts 2006-07-28

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)

Smart Displays and Productivity (2)UtopiaYou are solving a problem while ignoring others. You are working WAY down the application stack at the hardware layer. Whether that is the biggest "pain point" is of much discussion.What does the rest of your infrastructure look like? Those servers that are running SunRay software...

Tags: Servers, SunRay, server, Smart Display, job

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Smart Displays and Productivity

Smart Displays and ProductivityYou can get the same functionalityas thin clients by using L'UNIX workstations. This approach removes the EXPENSIVE server and computer platform, and allows for productivity when the network falls down.You only have to think in terms of distributed - which seems to be beyond everyone's ability ....

Tags: Thin clients, Microsoft Windows, SunRay, thin client, Smart Display

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

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

The Gartner Rules: Linux, Sun Ray, and Windows/XPOr youz can call me Ray or youz can call me NXOr NX Thin Client over PXE!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoMachinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_EnvironmentEspecially FreeNX:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNXBrilliant Man. Brilliant!Have a Guinness on MeSun FanboysYou forget that a good share of ZDNet columnists are Sun fanboys. They see the universe as...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows XP, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows Server, Sun Solaris, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, SunRay, Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2006-03-27

The smartest dumb idea around

The smartest dumb idea aroundSome thoughts1. The American Express "Blue" card IS a java card, and should work fine in the existing Sun Rays.2. The technology to make this work is not yet available! You need to prod the IEEE's butt to get Mobile WiMAX approved (almost 1yr since the...

Tags: WiMAX, NETWORKING, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-13

Power Use

Power UseNot just powerSince Sun Rays NEED a server to connect to, they are useless for anyone to STEAL! Yes, that means less theft if you use SunRays. I know some of our Dell's at work have sprouted legs . . .This is why I advocate SunRays for government agencies...

Tags: Monitors & displays, monitor, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-07-26

Additional Resources

More on Sun vs. IBM

More on Sun vs. IBMRip Sun's head off and suck it's guts out!If this goes ahead It will be interesting to see what IBM retains. Adding SPARC to its x86/64 & POWER line up is not really viable. I was sorry when HP axed Alpha for sucky Itanic. Thanks Carly!...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely great

Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely greatThere's interest from SMEsWe've had a few of our customers (all SME's) asking about this. One customer uses a hosting providing to run their public facing web site, which is mainly static content, but they also upload order tracking data on a daily basis, for...

Tags: SMB/SME, local storage, small and medium enterprise, storage

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Some seriously good advice from "Narg"

Some seriously good advice from "Narg"A compromise?How about a terminal near the employee entrance that is hooked up to a computerized time-clock? We use timeclock application in Sharepoint that would work fine, and get over the whole issue without having something that can't be tracked electronically as easily.RE: Some seriously...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Java, Murph, Microsoft Windows Vista, good advice, Narg, card

Discussion threads 2008-11-30

Data leaks: Watch out for careless and disgruntled employees

Data leaks: Watch out for careless and disgruntled employeesThis series seems to make Sun's case...for SunRay thin clients. With a Wifi laptop version of the SunRay available ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray ) it may be one of the safest ways to protect corporate data.Ideally security systems are linked and centralized,so that...

Tags: Mainframes, Wireless LANs, Sunray Thin Clients, security, password

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

So just what can Sun do for us?

It turns out they can do quite a bit and in a fairly cost-effective manner. I had a followup call in response to a few blog posts about my interview with Joe Hartley with the Northeast K-12 representative for Sun Microsystems last week and he outlined a number of...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-27

What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure

What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failureDificult to grabsun startegy regarding opensolaris/solaris x86 is very difficult to grad, and I think that is partly due to sun having changed their strategy over time.First, i think the program was started when they didn't know the outcome of niagara.the risc...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, second-one, Intel x86, Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2008-10-15