{Darkavich} wrote:
On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Craig Bender wrote:
Hi Blaine,
While I'm a huge proponent of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, the
real benefit you will notice is that Sun Desktop Manager has
replaced APOC. That's where the new features and development is
taking place. Other than that, it's really a marketing bundle of
all things Sun Ray. Nice thing is it's not a big monolithic
package, i.e. SRSS, SRC, and SDM are all separate packages.
It's always good to keep up on SRSS patches, but you don't need to
re-install SRSS to do that, just grab the patch.
I am not sure I would call it a bundle ;-)
I noticed after I downloaded it and installed the sunray server
software, it did not install the patches.
What's up with that ;-)
Why separate it? was there some reason for that?
Every release takes significant time in RE, QA and program
management.
To have updated SRSS 3.1 with the latest fixes would have
required building and testing the entire release all over
again, and probably an alpha/beta cycle. Also, developers who
want to provide a fix in a patch often have to integrate that change
in all the supported releases, so supporting another release means
yet another integration/test/review cycle for every fix.
This time is taken away from time required to provide future
bug fixes and features for the next release.
The goal was to get the Connector and Desktop Manager out
there as quickly as possible, so SRSS 3.1 was bundled as-is,
with the latest patch, so that we can get new fixes and features
to our customers as quickly as possible.
-Bob
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