Despite lackluster success thus far, the computing giant is forging ahead to supplant full-fledged PCs with stripped-down machines called thin clients. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Despite lackluster success thus far, Sun Microsystems is forging ahead to supplant full-fledged PCs with stripped-down machines called thin clients. At an event Thursday to show off ...

Timing for market acceptance of a thin-client desktop computing experience has never been better. Thanks to the halo effect from the Google phenomenon, and Microsoft's extreme tardiness with fat ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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One of the great predictions of desktop computing from the mid 1990s was that we would all move to so-called thin clients, stripped-out desktop computers containing only processor, display driver, and ...

Sun 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 last week said the 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 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week released for its Sun Ray thin clients new voice-over-IP software that lets users create voice conferences, and make or take phone calls at any Sun Ray device. The voice ...

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 ...

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 ...