You could argue that the SunRay vision is what Eric Schmidt spent the next decade years or so implementing at Google and what Amazon did with AWS, just with bro

You could argue that the SunRay vision is what Eric Schmidt spent the next decade years or so implementing at Google and what Amazon did with AWS, just with browsers replacing SunRay hardware, racks of AMD/Intel boxes replacing the SPARC hardware, and with passwords/phone apps instead of the smartcards. The vision wasn't necessarily all that wrong, just the approach wasn't incremental enough. Also - it was a very different and opposite approach to what Java was doing at the time. Java didn't have any notion of UI streaming like NeWS. It ran UI locally, always. So it's pretty unclear how much Sun really bought into the SunRay vision. They certainly didn't align everything around it.