An update on my side.
I tried contacting both Wim Coekaerts and Brad Lackey off list to see if
they would work with me in saving the Sun Ray infrastructure here at
CSU. I got no response back from either of them. I have sent multiple
emails. Which leads me to believe they really cannot do much in helping
the edu sector with pricing.
On 9/7/10 3:01 AM, Alexander Koponen wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Wim Coekaerts wrote:
we're on it,. really ... as fast as we can.
So, thread-bump.
After about 2 weeks of silence I'm still waiting for news from Oracle
on this list.
Our local retail sent us an invoice for Sun Ray 3 / 3+ with the
hardware support and I asked them if it was optional, they haven't
called back.
We are also decided to buy Sun Fire Servers, but have put this on hold
to see the solution for the whole edu-scandal.
After some thought I decided that the things that bother me today, 2
weeks after the drama, is that when I buy something, I want to have
the right to use it forever. I don't buy a computer, just to pay a
yearly fee for the right to use it. I can understand paying a yearly
fee to get software updates, but if I don't I can at least run the old
software.
Also the pricing is a bit hefty, it needs to compete with
workstations. If they cost more than workstations they need to be
better than workstations in all aspects. Which they might, I haven't
tried the 3+ yet. We are thinking of going with second hand SunRay 2,
since we bought RTU-licenses in bulk a couple of years back because we
were worried something like this would happen.
So... Any news yet?
-- Alexander
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