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To: amoezzi who wrote (20061)	9/21/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Robert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: Sun Ray Sun Ray is a significant departure from Sun's strategy for Java on the desktop. Previously, Java applets were to run on the desktop utilising local resources, but this had several problems: maintaining the JVM, maintaining the underlying OS and hardware requirements underlying the OS. Instead Sun Ray renders the client to literally a device terminal which executes screen codes. Sun Ray is NOT an X-term or even green terminal. Sun Ray are literally devices driven by device driver commands sent over the network. All the X-terminal rendering is done at the server and the device driver commands are send to the Sun Ray client. iPlanet comes into play as the Java client that implements the virtual devices that can also be substituted for the physical Sun Rays. The advantages of this approach is that the clients can never become obsoleted as they do absolutely no local processing, however bandwidth becomes more of an issue.