[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Paolo Marcheschi
<paolo.marcheschi at ftgm.it>wrote:

> Hi
> I'm also interested in the possibility to find a good alternative to
> Sunray, so far I found interesting this article:
> http://insights.oetiker.ch/**linux/sunray2thinlinc/<http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/sunray2thinlinc/>
> that found an alternative in thinlinc from http://www.cendio.com/
>
> I' m looking for a valid alternative that permits the use of the smart
> card to move/lock session because this is really a awesome feature, and It
> is a feature that we use most.
>
> An interesting project is this http://openthinclient.org/home**, they
> have also commercial support.
>
> Paolo
>
>> We have about 50 SunRays throughout our group, relying on the Smart Cards
>> to move/lock the session (we're a Laboratory, and have people moving
>> station all the time)
>>
>> with this news, we'll have to think long term about replacing them with
>> other thin-clients, but I cannot find anything equivalent ...
>>
>> It could just be me overlooking something, but we want a thin-client, not
>> a
>> network client ...
>>
>> Any suggestions would be good, we don't even have to stick to Solaris, but
>> I would prefer in the extreme not Windows. Anyone have experience with
>> other thin-clients?
>>
>> Jon
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>

The following pages may be useful :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Thin_clients

Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk