Monday February 14, 2005

SunRay under Hyped

I love what Rob Wright says in this blog posting about SunRay. I never thought about comparing what it costs to lease a PC to what it might cost for a service offering SunRays with broadband. But Rob is right it would be a great deal. He also talks about how much tech support a PC requires. I flew down to San Diego last month to reload Windows on my parents PC because the viruses had made it unusable. SunRays make this a non issue. Read what Rob says! I do believe that someone will offer this service.

Here's something else to think about when it comes to SunRay. I was in a meeting this morning and people were talking about a government customer they had been talking to. The social workers in this agency deal with a lot of very confidential information. They were very excited about the idea of having all that data secure on the agency's computer but available to employees wherever they are. The social workers could just use their Java cards in a drop in location or even carry a wireless SunRay. No more hard disks full of confidential information floating around. It makes a lot of sense to me. This Bill Vass presentation about Mobility with Security says it all much better than I do.