Who would ever bug a SunRay 1 from Sun new for $249. Go to ebay and get them for $30, including shipping. I use them at home, were I don't have room for a PC and were I don't want people installing software. Using the UNIVERSAL Desktop and I'm ready to go. I can switch between solaris, mircosoft (rdesktop) and ubuntu, just by moving the SunRays from sunray server to sunray server... Zero maintenance on the DoIP clients, servers a stable. You also can get yourself a small Citrix license and you have a very flexable setup.
Ralf --- Blaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So the bottom line is that software development is > forcing client > > upgrades on thin clients and ultimately forcing > hardware upgrades. > > Not so with Sunrays. Sunrays don't run software > and OS so you are never > > forced to upgrade them. > > This is really false advertising when Sun and others > claim this. Remember, > Bill Gates said no one will ever need more than 640K > of memory either. > > Sun Rays do have firmware that must be upgraded > every time you patch the > SRSS software. The fact that this happens mostly > seamlessly sort of hides > this, but it is there. > > At some point, the first generation of Sun Rays will > become obsolete as > technology advances and pushes them past their > design limits. At that > point, Sun will stop supporting them and they will > become doorstops like > everything else technology eventually becomes. > > The biggest draw back I see to the Sun Rays is their > apparent inability to > do full screen full motion video. That alone puts a > pretty big limit on > their capabilities and will forever keep them in the > "dull office machine" > market. > > I would also like to know why these things still > sell for $249 list. When > you can open up the Sunday paper and get a Dell PC > with a 2.5Ghz processor, > 256MB RAM, DVD drive and a monitor for $229. The > Dell has about 10 times > the amount of physical materials and complexity as > the Sun Ray. These > things should be selling for no more than your > average cable modem. > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
