Sean Clarke wrote:
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.
I feel the same way. I'm sure all of us do :) I'm currently testing
SRSS 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenSolaris 2008.11, but part of me is
wondering if I should bother.
I don't ever want to go back to a position where I have to worry about
actual workstations. You can give me more servers but actually having
to go to an end users desk and figure out what is wrong with their
workstation, no thanks.
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