That's true. Traditionally though the enterpise customer base has been
been more ethical. Companies that buy e-machine's (or the like)
typically never bought Sun and vice versa. But now that Sun Ray Server
can run on an e-machine with linux, the game is changing. Hopefully the
business team will come up with something that will make everyone happy.
Darin Perusich wrote:
but you could buy 3rd party clients if you so choose or pickup used
ray's on ebay. granted those 3rd parties still need to purchase the
boards from sun.
if you don't enforce licenses in SRSS you may always be losing revenue.
kind of like being able to use all 0's or 9's as the license key for M$
windows or office back in day. but that was part of their world
dominance plan wasn't it :)
Craig Bender wrote:
Perhaps that you need to buy a Sun Ray?
Darin Perusich wrote:
but there's no license enforcement in the software to begin with so
how is it problematic from a revenue standpoint?
Craig Bender wrote:
It's really the enforcement of the license. Which we don't do
currently which would make something like a soft client problematic
from a revenue standpoint.
David Mackintosh wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:41:02PM -0700, Craig Bender wrote:
That's awesome!
I hear you on the softclient. I'm in your camp. I always try.
Two questions though (being serious here):
Would pay for a soft client?
If Sun Ray changed it's licensing that it was per connection (i.e.
like Citrix), how would you feel about that?
Hi Craig
Personally -- yes, I'd pay for a soft client. Why? Because it gets
into the total-value scenario -- I could issue my home users with the
soft client to run on their windows things, and over a VPN to a
dedicated Sun Ray client interconnect network, you would have all the
benefits of a remote user experience with practically none of the
hassles of having remote employees use their own spyware infested
home computers.
(breath)
OK, regarding the licensing -- how would a 'per-connection' licensing
scheme differ from the current (apparrent) 'per-user' licensing
scheme?
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