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Windows on Sun Ray?!

by Charlie Bess

On the Sun Ray Blog there is a demo screen of XP in a VM on Sun Ray that looks fairly impressive. Unfortunately, it is still marked as coming soon.

You may ask "So what...?" but the implications on the support structure, security and the agility of moving your personal environment around may be intense.

Citrix and Windows Terminal Services have been around for a long time, and heaven forbid X-Windows, but it has not taken off in most organizations. It will be interesting to see what the Sun Ray with Windows will do.

Published Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:43 PM

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Posted by james governor Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:18 PM

Sun bought Tarantella - which is Citrix-like. draws windows on the glass.

Posted by charlie Bess Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:22 PM

James, although it is true the Sun bought Tarentella this is not that kind of technology. This is more like running windows in an emulator.
Almost all the functionality but with lower costs and hopefully greater control.

Posted by Ben Dash Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:52 PM

I heard that this was QEMU plus the closed-source kernel accelerator KQEMU.