Charles,
The world is already giving up on the PC.
I hope you will have a nice stay during your visit to out planet. <g>
Cell phones, Palm Pilots, iPods, etc. are the coming wave. Sun Rays could be a part of that.
Cell phone is a phone, Ipod is a walkman. Palm Pilot and such just shows a desire to have some of the PC functionality on the road.
Sun Ray is a dumb terminal and time of those have passed. You can get a full fledged PC and do everything that SunRay does, and so much more.
The world out there is ad hoc, and PC is a good ad hoc tool. When some structure to the madness si found and a corporate application is developed, it can be deployed on either Sun Ray or a PC. The target for Sun Ray, IMO, is the dumbest, heads down users who are not capable or expected to do anything ad hoc. So there may be a market, but I am not sure this is where Sun wants to be.
Sun has a history with Sun workstations, and I remember it was a status symbol to have one of those. This is where Sun should go on the desktop - high end of the desktop (if anywhere), with 64 bit x86 based computers, either Windows 64 (when available), Linux or Solaris.
Joe |
