On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/24/10 4:23 AM, Mika A wrote:
No. His comments reflect the current situation in about 90% of potential
customer base Sun Ray could have, but will not, simply because of that.
What Sun Ray/Sun VDI needs is a Unified Storage kind of appliance, which
hides the Solaris part of the equation and JUST WORKS.
It sounds like you think Sun Ray is intended to to join the ranks of cheap
RDP-in-a-box thin clients in the Windows world. From what I've seen, the
Windows support for Sun Ray was sorta stapled onto the side after the product
Yes, I'd like that because "nobody" cares about nor wants a Solaris/Linux
desktop. Most of the potential customers need/want Windows/Apple desktop
and that's why there is the SunVDI. I don't know where Oracle wants to
take Sun Ray but it needs to be something other than Solaris desktop.
Unfortunately first Sun and now Oracle is doing their best to artificially
keep the cost of Sun Ray up. That may have something to do with Sun Ray
being sort of a niche product, but still. I'd love to see the Sun Ray
customer base grow way larger and drive both hardware and especially
support prices down.
was established. And rightfully so...the world doesn't need another way to
get cheap Windows desktops. Sun Ray's strengths lie elsewhere.
And where is that, in today's world from a small company's perspective?
And more precisely: what part of that can't be done with
<whatever-windows-installable-solution>?
Now, don't get me wrong. I like Sun Ray and I'm a Linux guy, been running
linux on my desktops for 10 years. But I am the only one doing that in our
company. And for our needs, almost any VDI/thin client solution out there
- and definitely any of the TOP 5 - could do what we need.
Further, to your statement of "the Solaris requirement", it runs great
under Linux.
Yes, SRSS does. If you want/need VDI, you want to use Oracle VDI with ZFS,
because that's cool. Sure, you could use vmware but why would you then
want to use Oracle VDI instead of View and once you go there you can skip
Sun Rays as well, because they simply are not the best choice anymore.
This is not a Windows product...thank heaven.
Yes, that is a plus if you are a UNIX company. But that was not my point.
Unified Storage is not a windows product either but it is a product you
can sell to a windows shop.
.mika
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