> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sgd-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Saul > Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 5:37 AM > To: Sun Secure Global Desktop Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SGD-Users] RoadMap > > Hi Blaster > > Information on the SGD road map would typically be fairly confidential > until close to its release, as with most other software products - you > can't tell your competition what you're up to :)
True, but Sun does make fairly public information about upcoming releases of Solaris itself. It's even difficult to find out what the current version of SGD is without downloading it and doing a pkginfo. > SGD was available to use free in production use to enable as many > customers to get access to the software as easily as possible. "was" available for free. This supposedly "limited time offer" was never mentioned in the original press release. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051130.1.xml I'll quote it below: Included at no cost in the new Solaris Enterprise System are: [...] * SunRay ultra-thin client software; * Sun Secure Global Desktop Software. Sun is offering a risk-free opportunity to explore, develop and deploy on Sun's pre-tested and pre-integrated software platform. [...] Sun has committed to open sourcing its entire software portfolio using industry-standard open source licensing models to allow customers to have easy and broad access to all of its source code[...] So one day you can request free licenses and even announcing they are going to release the source code, the next day free licenses are no longer available? And if Sun is willing to do this with SGD, then why not Solaris? > In reality, no customers would ever deploy without a support contract or > access to patches and upgradable new releases - to do so you still had > to purchase a right to use licence and the appropriate support contract. Of course not. But it's Sun's "here, this is our strategy day...Opps, now this is our strategy" that really makes Sun look bad. I am a consultant and it was beneficial for both me and Sun to have free unlimited access to SGD software for my clients. I obviously still have a valid license key that I obtained during this supposed promotion, but I'll be SOL when new versions of SGD come out that no longer honors the old key. Nomachine is now offering a "free for life" 2 user version of their NoMX software. Guess which product I am now gaining experience on and will therefore be able to recommend in the future? _______________________________________________ SGD-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sgd-users
