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> Long before Oracle killed it, Sun fumbled it, Oracle did try to monetize SunRay but for whatever reason it didn't meet their profit threshold. It was fantast

• spwa4 1y ago
  The point behind SunRay was to give organizations 100% control, not 99.9%, 100% over everything any of their computers were used for, like a mainframe. Of course, this made them 99.9% unusable. Because they sucked at what they were meant for, not because of Sun, but because of cheapass management under provisioning the mainframes, and they just couldn't do anything else. This meant they were unable-to-scroll-one-page-down-in-a-list-in-a-minute level of unusable in practice. Occasionally you'd find one where the security was about as well executed as the function they were meant for and there was some fun to be had, but not much. I find it hard to have much sympathy for SunRay. Their advantages were supposed to be price, but they were never cheap, and security, but that required hiring engineers that understand mainframe unix security, which management just didn't do.