I responded to you twice...

Once on August 22nd at 10:46 PM and on Aug 25th at 9:51AM.

Not sure what is happening with e-mail.

If your contact number below is correct, I will call you after noon mountain 
time today 9/7.

Brad

On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:12 AM, CJ Keist wrote:

> 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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> -- 
> C. J. Keist                     Email: [email protected]
> Systems Group Manager           Phone: 970-491-0630
> Engineering Network Services    Fax:   970-491-5569
> College of Engineering, CSU
> Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301
> 
> All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'
> 
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Brad Lackey | Technical Enablement Manager
Phone: +1 3038758616
Oracle Global Desktop Virtualization
San Diego, CA

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