Sean Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: >Afternoon all, > As I always like to push the boundaries... has anyone played with >Ubuntu 9.04 and Sun Ray? > >I use SXDE/OpenSolaris for my desktops, and the last time I looked at >Ubuntu was just after Dapper and SRSS 4 - this gave me numerous problems >and we moved back to SXDE and then onto OpenSolaris. > >Anyone evaulated it yet? The desktop is pretty swish, but the pain I had >with trying to get Sun Ray operational (curse that 26D screen!) still >hurts.
I was holding out for the possibility of SRSS becoming open source (probably difficult with patents and codecs etc. - but I could dream), but I guess the Oracle aquisition will put a stop to that possibility. Don't know how you all feel, but I am very concerned indeed, if SRSS was already open I would think it was a good thing (because I would be less at risk), however with closed source technology, closed propietary hardware I feel very exposed. My clients are used to the regular desktop refresh, indeed they love getting the latest versions and all the improvements, if SRSS is left to wither and die (as in it will be closed source and only work with dated systems (from a user desktop perspective) my clients have invested £1000's on my reccomendation and will be left very unhappy. Even now I am considering whether on my own desktop refresh (due in May) if my company should start to think about migrating off Sun Ray.... I love the thin client stuff, it works really well - but my own opinion is Sun Ray is the best (non windows) solution, wyse and X doesn't route sound, has no USB support etc. etc. - but left with a moribund technology I'd sooner jump to something like OpenSolaris/Ubuntu on the latest iMac (all built into the screen) then be forced into something further down the line. Lets face it, I don't really class Oracle as an "innovative" company do you? am I wrong? Oracle makes money, and does it very well and in a rather bruteful way, but it is very good at it. OK, so this is all premature, the aquisition only happened yesterday - but still, I am very concerned. -- -- Regards Sean Clarke --------------------------------------------- SEC Consulting Limited Phone: +44 (0)23 8040 5599 Website: http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk Email: [email protected] SEC Consulting is a Sun Partner Advantage Member: Sun, keeping 10 moves ahead. http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk/Sun/index.html _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
