Warranty, support, funding further development of the product, making
sure I can feed my kids, etc, etc, etc.
Ralf K. Wiegand wrote:
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.
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