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In its infancy, Sun’s Sun Ray was a network-clobbering, sometimes stuttering example of what thin-client computing on Unix-like systems could be. Now it’s much more stable and much, much thinner. The ...

The new offering, slated to ship at the end of May as part of the Sun Ray Software package, will offer full-screen access to Windows applications, said Alan Brenner, senior vice president of the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2005--SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a leading global IT utility service provider today announced and demonstrated a new desktop utility computing service that ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that it is buying thin-client system maker Tarantella Inc. for $25 million. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Tarantella sells serverware that allows users to access ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Sun Microsystems announced on Wednesday new security and display abilities for its thin client family, launching its $249 Sun Ray 2 and ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week said the server software that supports its Sun Ray thin-client devices can now run on x86-based Linux systems in addition to Sparc/Solaris machines. Sun Ray Server ...

Continuing its push to drive broader adoption of thin-client computing, Sun Microsystems on Wednesday rolled out the second generation of its Sun Ray thin client devices and software, which now can ...

As part of the partnership, Sun said it will bundle Sun Secure Global Desktop Software--obtained via its acquisition of Tarantella--on Wyse's S- and V-class Windows CE and Windows XPe terminals and ...

Sun Microsystems has decided to take the thin-client model to its logical extreme and move an entire U.K. branch office to thin clients running over a wide area network. Speaking to ZDNet UK on ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--Thin is in again, at least for a spell, as hardware makers use Linux to sell companies on the idea of forsaking full-fledged PCs in favor of stripped-down "thin clients." In the 1990s, ...