This you're not even going to believe!
Guess who scored a slot in the
Sun Ray at Home pilot???
You know it!
(please don't ask me how I did it. I am not proud of my tactics.)
Right this very minute, as we speak, my Sun Ray
is being shipped to me.
Oh how I love this, oh how i love this. Let me count the ways.
1. Everybody at Sun Microsystems has a Java smart card badge with a chip on it that catches the California sun like Mike Tyson's front teeth.
2. You go to any Sun campus. Stick your Java badge into any Sun Ray -- and immediately your session is right there, just the way you left it. That email you were in the middle of composing... still sitting right there on your desktop...
3. You walk around from building to building. Stick your badge into any Sun Ray and in 2 seconds you're working.
Total mobility.
But wait, there's more... They're going to be rolling out Sun Rays to people at home. They're piloting. And guess who's on the pilot!!! can you believe it!!! My Sun Ray ...
is being shipped to me right now.
Bill Vass talked about this Sun Ray at home pilot in his keynote at SunNetwork Shanghai. He actually went into the future just a little further... check it out.. it was an awesome keynote.
anyway. i'm all excited. can you tell?
mary
p.s. find out more abou the Sun Ray at Home pilot by readng Dan Lacher's blog.
I am new to the Sun Ray and I am really appreciating the mobility it affords me. I walk into a Conference room or a co-worker's office, plug in my badge to the resident Sun Ray and I am ready to get down to business. I can show my Manager what I've been working on, demo new code, etc, etc. Very efficient. Very productive.
And I truly love the quiet.
Posted by Chris on August 17, 2004 at 04:40 PM PDT #
Posted by Anonymous on August 17, 2004 at 05:01 PM PDT #
Posted by mary on August 17, 2004 at 05:59 PM PDT #
I actually have mixed feelings on this.
On one hand, I am looking forward to being able to pull my badge from my Sunray at home, driving to the office, putting my card in a Sunray and seeing my session.
On the other hand, I do love my Apple PowerBook 15" laptop and I do currently get the benefits of mobility. It's a lot bulkier than my JavaBadge, but hey, it's mine... And it screams even compared to the Sun Fire 6800 Sunray servers that IT is testing.
I guess that if Sun does provide me with a Sunray, I would go ahead and use it. The convenience would be big positive. The security would be amazing. I guess that as long as the performance is Good Enough[tm] (as in allowing me to run Sun Java Studio Enterprise for example), it would be a Good Thing[tm]
-- Fred
Very attached to his PowerBook 15".
Posted by Frederic Jean on August 17, 2004 at 08:47 PM PDT #
Posted by Derek on August 18, 2004 at 02:36 AM PDT #
Posted by mary on August 18, 2004 at 04:38 AM PDT #
YEAH!!
Mary,
You might want to point people to the blog entry that I have posted on this as well...
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dlacher/20040728#sr_h_sun_ray_home
dl
Posted by Dan Lacher on August 18, 2004 at 05:23 AM PDT #
All,
I see that Mary had posted a link over to my origianl posting about my use of the SR@H. I have to say, that the performance is not just good enough, but it rocks. I have used a Sun Ray ™ when I have been the Burlington and San Diego offices and the speed that I see @ home is better then I saw in the office. I am working from my home in the middle of Michigan on a cable broadband connection and accessing a Sun Ray ™ server that is based out our Bay Area (cali) offices. The spead is very workable and fast. As the pilot rolls out they are placing SR@H edge servers in all of the geos, so for now Mary might be connected to the server in the Bay area or the on in Broomfield (CO). For now they do not have an East coast located SR@H server. Does not matter though... the speed is amazing. If you are internal to Sun and would like to talk feel free to give me a call (look me up in namefinder) or shot me an email.... the email thing is open to anyone that would like to talk about the topic.
I am very much attached to my 15" Apple Powerbook but I am forcing myself (not to hard) to use the SR@H so that I can provide feedback to the people running the pilot... that and I have to share the PB w/ my wife... so sometimes I get kicked off it when I need to do work... that and for now it offers the seperation of work and home. I know that is something that all of us geeks can strugle with.
Well my rambeling is coming to and end for now. Let me know if you need more info or would like to talk.
dl
Posted by Dan Lacher on August 18, 2004 at 05:40 AM PDT #
I agree strongly with the whole remote SunRay thing -- the idea of lugging around (and administering!) a 3lb laptop just seems all wrong to me. I've got a laptop, and only carry it when I really have to.
Instead of worrying about battery life, I'd much prefer to store my computer <font size="-1">(my smartcard actually, but you get the idea)</font> in my wallet and use it at any public terminal, using their power instead.
Now, if they'd only start installing SunRays at airports, on trains and all the other places people tend to wait, life would be much much easier. (oh, and there'd be no problem with upgrades, spare parts, broken operating systems and all the other stuff that comes along with each worker having to adminster their own kit)
Posted by Tim Foster on August 18, 2004 at 09:35 AM PDT #
Posted by Erik Hashiguchi on August 18, 2004 at 10:10 AM PDT #
Posted by Erik Hashiguchi on August 18, 2004 at 02:50 PM PDT #