Comment by martinbfine
7 hours ago
We had hundreds of them. Fantastic technology, really secure and reliable. Wish I had saved a few, threw them all out shortly after Oracle acquired Sun. Moved to HP and Dell thin clients with VDI. All the problems and patches and maintenance of that environment paid for a really big new house for me, lots of overtime. Thanks Microsoft/HP/Dell/VMware!
What I remember about them read them being really responsive.
I also really liked the idea of the smart card, more secure than just a password. And you would transfer your entire open session to another terminal with it which was really nice.
I still have one or two SunRays here but the problem is they don't allow for modern resolutions like 1920x1080x8bpp
My first job out of college was at a .edu, and we made good use of SunRays! The session being linked to a smartcard was excellent for popping into a computer lab anywhere on any campus to send an email in the age before smartphones.