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Oracle VDI gets the Geek Week treatment...finally!

It's been a while since we had a "Sun Ray = the Best Way" war on BrianMadden.com, but our most tenured readers will remember the small but vocal group of supporters that Sun Ray terminals and Sun/Oracle VDI have. The truth is, when it was a Sun solution...

by Gabe Knuth on February 08, 2012 : 0 comments , 2,633 views
Oracle VDI: Just for people who already use other Oracle products?

Oracle does not usually fall within our realm of coverage, but when there’s a 45,000-person conference just down the street, we certainly notice. (Plus they do actually have a VDI solution. :) Well... they inherited a VDI solution when they bought...

by Jack Madden on October 11, 2011 : 7 comments , 2,709 views
Oracle DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London

Andy Hall, Product Management Director at Oracle demos SunRay thin clients with smart card technology and a multi-OS virtualization solution.

by Justin Meisinger on May 16, 2011 : 0 comments , 2,512 views
Look out Pano, Sun, Ncomputing! Wyse Project Badger is their entry into the "zero client" space.

Details are starting to emerge about something called Wyse Project "Badger," a software solution that will challenge the so-called "zero" clients like those from Pano Logic, Sun, and Ncomputing. Badger (which should come out of beta...

by Brian Madden on January 29, 2010 : 12 comments , 8,086 views
Please tell me why I should care about Sun?

I've been getting lots of crap from the commenters on BrianMadden.com accusing me of ignoring Sun's desktop virtualization offerings. And these people have a point. I have been ignoring Sun. I just don't "get" why anyone would use...

by Brian Madden on November 11, 2009 : 56 comments , 9,915 views
Should Citrix hire Scott McNealy?

Should Citrix should hire Scott McNealy? My odd thought for the day. I try not to share them too often. Assuming the EU doesn’t hold things up forever, once the Oracle/Sun merger completes it is widely assumed that Sun Microsystems co-founder and...

by Tim Mangan on October 22, 2009 : 12 comments , 3,270 views
Brian Madden TV #10 - Virtual Computer demo, Oracle buys Sun, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenDesktop FP1, Gartner, profile of Parallels

This week's Brian Madden TV is a busy one. In our news round up, we discuss: VMware's announcement of vSphere 4: What it is and what is has to do with us Oracle's acquisition of Sun Gartner's prediction that the VDI market will be $65B...

by Brian Madden TV on April 23, 2009 : 10 comments , 10,203 views
Oracle buys Sun. Is there a desktop virtualization angle here?

Or maybe that should be "desktop virtualization angel ," in that Oracle will do with the Sunrays what they did with their own NCs a decade ago? Am I joking about that? I dunno. I still don't "get" why people like Sun Rays so much...

by Brian Madden on April 21, 2009 : 11 comments , 5,014 views
Remote display protocols: low bandwidth, good user experience, low CPU... pick any two.

There's been a lot of talk about remote protocols recently. We know Microsoft is cooking up something with their acquisition of Calista , and VMware's agreement with Teradici seems to be picking up steam . And of course Citrix is talking about...

by Brian Madden on March 16, 2009 : 10 comments , 7,358 views
Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?

InternetWeek reported a few weeks ago that new firmware for Sun Ray clients is available , and that one of the key new features is multimedia redirection. This is funny because I thought the whole point of Sun Rays was they were so thin? Check out this...

by Brian Madden on November 12, 2008 : 5 comments , 4,410 views

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Oracle VDI gets the Geek Week treatment...finally!

Oracle VDI: Just for people who already use other Oracle products?

Oracle DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London

Look out Pano, Sun, Ncomputing! Wyse Project Badger is their entry into the "zero client" space.

Please tell me why I should care about Sun?

Should Citrix hire Scott McNealy?

Brian Madden TV #10 - Virtual Computer demo, Oracle buys Sun, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenDesktop FP1, Gartner, profile of Parallels

Oracle buys Sun. Is there a desktop virtualization angle here?

Remote display protocols: low bandwidth, good user experience, low CPU... pick any two.

Sun Rays get a firmware upgrade for better video performance. Wait... what?