In September 2008, medical products maker ResMed decided to replace 160 PCs with Sun Ray 2 Thin Clients, and purchased two SPARC Enterprise T2000 Servers with chip multithreading, and four Sun Fire X4440 Servers to support its new solution. According to ResMed, IT productivity has increased by the equivalent of two additional IT staff, and the company has saved about $267,850. The Sun solution also increased security and substantially reduced energy costs as well as the noise-level.
The new Sun Ray Software 5 is now available via download, while the physical media kit is expected to be released December 4th. This release improves the end user experience with a broader choice of end client devices, improved Adobe Flash performance and expanded support for USB peripheral devices. Additionally, Sun Ray Software 5 improves application server support, by adding support for Windows Server 2008. With the release of Version 5, Sun announced the end of life for Sun Ray Software 4 10/08.
Given that the initial release of the Sun Desktop Access Client (SDAC) does not participate in the smart-card-based hotdesking that makes the Sun Ray Desktop Units so popular, it comes as no surprise that workarounds are springing up, including "Hotdesking sessions to and from the Sun Display Access Client" by Jorg Barfurth.
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