Jerry Westrick wrote:
Ahhh the Sun-Ray thin clients... I'm also impressed with these but...
They are not real X-Windows clients, instead they are something closer to vnc thin-clients, as they only paint display buffers sent to them via a SUN proprietary protocol. The machines sun-rays cost about 100$ ea. but the client license for the sun proprietary server is another 100$ ea, even when running on linux (which I think they offer), plus cost of server, plus...
I agree, something working similar to this would be a real great advantage, as most people really like the idea of carrying there entire system in a card from terminal to terminal... I got a doctor that would buy it in the same instant I offered it to him!
Hm. This would be a great way to recycle some old hw, like those Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 tablet PCs that keep turning up on EBay for under $100 US (yes, I got one, haven't quite figured out what to do with it). True, the 1200 is B&W rather than color, but...