It seems to have gone almost unnoticed that IBM announced recently plans to bring out a stateless thin client.... a la the Sun Ray. It was fascinating to read the article that Joseph Kovar put onto CRN (Read it here) that said they have plans for such a device. It was amazing that the article went from the beginning to the end talking about this great revelation, and all the values of not having to manage a stateless desktop device, improved security and the like, and never mentioned that Sun has been doing this since 1999, and the only company doing so today. Magically, Dell, Lenovo and HP got a mention, somehow.

While I welcome IBM to the Party, I have to wonder if Sun Rays are THAT much of a secret to the world at large?

Maybe they are. Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Lots of noise about the article that John Cox wrote about the usage of 5,000+ Sun Rays at Verizon's call centres. Very cool article and the kind of thing that might help out with my beef from the previous topic. And good for John - his article showed up in LinuxWorld, NetworkWorld, and got picked up by ITWorldCanada, but with a different title. If you haven't seen it, check it out here.

In my latest Podcast (show #7) I talk about the IBM article and the Verizon article a bit, and also have some fun talking about some (hopefully uniquely Canadian) FUD. If you give it a listen, you will see it was a lot of fun to put together. I hope it is as much fun to listen to.

I am supposed to go off to University of Toronto on Friday to film an interview with the Director of IT there, who has had Sun Rays for four years now. They have some pretty innovative uses of the Sun Rays there - one of which doesn't include using it as a desktop which is different from anything else in Canada that I am aware of. Should be fun.

I hope to have it out on my site and YouTube as quick as possible.

Cheers.