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Wednesday February 08, 2006
The desktop as a grid service This is a topic I have written about before and am pretty darn passionate about. This time, however, Frank Sommers covers the topic in a 5 page article, digging in to how the Sun Ray "does its thing" and its use over the Internet. Frank's a smart guy. I happened to meet him at JavaOne as we hopped on adjacent Sun Rays to check mail (& blog). The conversation started from there. "Hey, I know you ...". His reputation preceded him as I knew him from his Jini work and his involvment on the Jini mail aliases.
Full disclosure requires me to say that I reviewed this article for Frank last fall.
FYI, the Sun Ray Software and the Sun Secure Global Desktop are both now available for download for free (sans support). The Sun Rays are not free, but very affordable. There is always eBay :)
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Posted by Alex Goncalves on February 09, 2006 at 07:59 AM PST #
Posted by Mikael Gueck on February 09, 2006 at 10:14 PM PST #
Great news indeed. A while ago I though of a possibility that could be quite exsiting. Guess some other people will know how to put all of this together, but by the looks of this and other articles we might be closer to it than what I thought.
Posted by Danie Loots on February 09, 2006 at 11:04 PM PST #
Alex, I agree. I would love to see a software client. Right now, the answer is mixing & matching the sun ray server software with the secure global desktop. I use x11vnc to get to my running sun ray session. Works great, but obviously is less than ideal, not to mention unsupported.
Mikael/Danie, as I have stated before, I think the desktop as a service is only a matter of time. It won't be a fit for everyone (like gamers), but it will be a fit for a good chunk of the market.
Posted by 208.54.15.129 on February 10, 2006 at 06:07 AM PST #
Posted by William R. Walling on February 10, 2006 at 01:02 PM PST #