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20040920 Monday September 20, 2004

SunRays at Home.....Another AWESOME invention for home workers!

From my previous blog, you know that I just activated my AccessLine and I thought that was the cat's meow but that was before I was introduced to new home-based SunRay150.

Before I received my new SunRay, I was working at home on a company supplied laptop loaded with VPN5000 and Go-Global. That worked fine until we were asked to upgrade to VPN3000 and wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't install on my rather old laptop and so I had to move over to a combination of using my personal Macintosh with VPN3000 to read my email and using the laptop with it's original configuration to view my calendar and download StarOffice files for modifications.

When I received my SunRay last week, it was a whole new world and a whole new working from home experience! As far as I'm concerned, once Sun is back on top of the world, all of Sun's at home workers NEED to be given a SunRay for their at-home work days! I no longer have to read email on my Mac and I don't have to keep my laptop up and running at the same time to access and modify StarOffice files. Everything that I use in my office is so very accessible on my new SunRay...of course, the only negative that I can see right now is that I can't print documents but according to the Development folks for the SunRay, they are working on that right now. YIPPEEE!!

So, if you ever run into someone in a back alley in a dark trenchcoat and they whisper to you "Pssst, wanna get an Accessline and Sunray?" take them up on it! If they are offering anything else, run!!! ( Sep 20 2004, 10:00:23 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [6]
Comments:

Welcome to the wonderful world of SR@H.

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Posted by Dan Lacher on September 20, 2004 at 10:08 AM PDT #

Amen to that one, sister! (Dan's an honorary Sun Ray sister). your life changes forever when you get a Sun Ray at home! mary

Posted by mary on September 20, 2004 at 10:21 AM PDT #

Gee, I can do all that and more with my Mac. Besides, I don't have any more deskspace to add yet another computer/display. My G4 Mac is fully capable of running Java Sun apps directory (e.g. bugster), and I can launch apps on my Solaris box in MPK and display them on my Mac with VPN and X11 with no problems. And I can print, and run Mac OS apps (iChat, iTunes, OpenOffice) at the same time. Try running photoshop on your SunRay! SunRay? No thanks.

Posted by Richard Friedman on September 20, 2004 at 03:15 PM PDT #

Right on, Richard. Looks like nobody ever told Catwoman about OpenOffice.

Posted by Flossie the Sheep on September 21, 2004 at 05:26 AM PDT #

Actually, someone has told me about OpenOffice which I do have on my Mac, along with VPN and X11, but as I mentioned to Richard yesterday, one of the biggest advantages in my opinion about having a SR@H is that I can have my Mac back as my personal system...it has been paroled from it's temporary service to Sun :)

Posted by Vicki Tan on September 21, 2004 at 08:10 AM PDT #

<tt> Mary,
Great endorsement of Apple/Mac, how about showing some love for Sun. I too have a Sun Ray at home and LOVE it. I don't have to worry about where my data is (syncing), I don't have to worry about if and when my data is backed up, and I don't have to lug around a laptop. If you HAVE TO lug around a laptop, I suppose a Mac will work, but how will we ever convince our Customers that a Sun Ray solution is the way to go if we keep talking up laptops and talking down secure, mobile solutions like the Sun Ray?! </tt>

Posted by Drew on September 21, 2004 at 08:04 PM PDT #

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