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Thursday, June 26. 2008

The Sun Ray technology is one of really cool technolgies of Sun, but somehow it´s surrounded by some misunderstandings. Paul Murphy wrote with his artcle "The top Sun Ray myths" an interesting answer to the most prevalent myths.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 09:32 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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when you arrive at Rome-airport you can see that the whole immigration-check is run by Sunrays, fas, no queues. Later in the hotel we could not checkin because the HP-systems were down.....

#1 Frank on 2008-06-27 14:50 (Reply)

SunRays are cool and we use them almost exclusively here, our servers are 8-core Xeons running Debian Linux. What sucks, unfortunately, is the support for non-Solaris operating systems and sensible error reporting. Especially the drivers for USB, audio and serial interfaces for Linux as well as keyboard mapping cause problems with recent kernels, installing on a non-supported Linux distribution like Debian is also no fun.

It would be great if Sun could open source the SRSS software or publish the protocol used. This might be problematic since it would allow competitors to manufacture SunRay-compatible clients and thus reduce the (possibly large) margins on the SunRay clients - the hardware of a current SunRay is comparable to a high-end 802.11 router sold for about €50 (plus the graphics hardware, admitted).

#2 Michael Engel (Homepage) on 2008-07-02 16:59 (Reply)

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