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To: Calvin who wrote (141581)	9/8/1999 8:22:00 AM
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Sun plans highly-simplified computer NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Sun Microsystems plans to sell a desktop computer that is no more complicated than your telephone. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sun (SUNW: news, msgs) plans to unveil Wednesday the Sun Ray 1, a device that can duplicate most functions of a personal computer or a workstation, but without software that requires a constant stream of upgrades. The Sun Ray is a simple terminal whose software runs on a central server, displaying the output as a PC "desktop" image on a monitor. Sun boasts that by moving all the complexity of computing from the PC or workstation back to a server, it has turned the Sun Ray into a kind of "information appliance." Software and hardware upgrades can be managed centrally, a process that requires no change at all on the desktop unit; in addition, the Sun Ray can "run" software off any server, including Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs) applications stored on Windows NT servers. The Sun Ray itself, in fact, is essentially nothing more than a monitor attached to a small box that manages the screen and network connection, a keyboard and a mouse.