Yes, Sun is moving. Oh, not the Sun, but Sun, that computer/software pachyderm company. Finally, after three years since Windows 2003 was released, Sun decided to do something for their Thin Client customers and is working (in Beta at the moment) on their own RDP Client for Solaris.

Although I do think Sun Rays are still a niche out there, they are usually in use at very large customers (read ‘Military’), what means customers using Windows as well. As Microsoft Terminal Services brought Server Based Computing to the masses (yes, it was Microsoft as with the absurd prices Citrix insists on having and with Sun’s ‘do-not-care-about-small-and-medium-customers’ mentality, Server Based Computing would still be a geek/freak thing), everyone and everything now uses RDP (Do you know your Windows Media Center and your XBox/XBox 360 talk using RDP?).

Sun finally did something for their poor customers used to live with the half usable RDesktop that as of today, with RDP6 out there in the wild, does not even support RDP5.2 properly. So kudos for Sun for doing something decent for their customers (although three years late…)!

I know my friend Craig Bender may not like this post. But that is true, Sun is freaking slow as a company, especially when dealing with things that somehow touch the Microsoft layer/market.

I just hope they will not wait another three years to come up with an RDP6 compatible client…

Cheers!