On 10/24/10 3:36 PM, Mika A wrote:
Do you have a proposal how to promote the Oracle Sun Ray?
Roland
1. Cut the price
Agree 100%. $500 for a Sun Ray 3+ is ridiculous. Nobody will buy
that. Oracle needs to look at their sales figures. It needs to be HALF
that price, maybe even a bit lower. The Sun Ray 2's $259 price is much
more reasonable, and on-target to compete with even the cheapest PCs.
2. Hide the *NIX parts
Already hidden when running the right desktop setup. My users NEVER
see a shell prompt and didn't have to learn ANYTHING new except for
"click on the 'red fox' instead of the 'blue e'". Point, click, drool,
just like they're used to.
1. DTU today costs more than a fully loaded PC. On top of that one needs
to buy a whole lot of servers. Plus learn a new way to manage desktops.
Which may feel to be too much.
A few random thoughts on this:
Management types very often quote what the COULD spend on PC
hardware, but it's rarely what they REALLY DO spend on PC hardware. One
can buy "eMachines" PCs (cheap garbage PCs sold to consumers) from a
big-box store for $300, but those aren't what most companies buy...they
buy big Dell and Compaq/HP PCs that cost a lot more. Yet everyone uses
$300 as the benchmark "this is how much a PC costs" number. The Sun Ray
2 at $259 isn't too bad, but at nearly twice that cost, the 3+ will
never sell.
Any I.T. person who isn't willing to learn new things has no business
at all working in I.T.! The nature of this industry is that it evolves.
It changes every day. I've been writing software for 25 years and
what am I doing today? Learning new things about writing software.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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