All taken care of.
I just talked to Larry Ellison (he as out sailing an still took my
call!) who gave me Bill Gates' cell phone. Bill said if if you forward
this email out to 1000 people from a Windows 7 PC using Outlook, his
friends at Intel will track that you are a Windows 7 and Outlook user.
They will send you a free Windows VDA license, and also Free copy of
Office 2010 Professional for each of your friends that forward it on. I
also read something about this in the USA TODAY, so it has to be true.
All part of some MS/AOL email beta test.
OK, joking. But seriously? Please explain how is the hurting the Sun
Ray business case? Why don't you hurt Microsoft and run Linux or
Solaris and publish Windows apps from a terminal server via SGD?
To be clear:
ANY Non-Windows 7 device needs a WVDA license (all Wyse, all HP, all
Igel, all Dell, All EVERYTHING)
ALL Windows 7 device not covered by an enterprise Software Assurance
agreement has to pay for a WDA license.
All non-corporate owned devices has to pay for a WVDA license. That
includes the bosses iPad that the tech guy loaded the Desktop Receiver
to accesses their XenDesktop install on.
This is true for Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View, nComputing, and even
Microsoft VDI.
All of the above includes, is not limited to:
-Non-corporate owned PCs (i.e. a Contractor's PC)
-Devices that are do not run Windows 7
-All non-windows based thin-clients
-All Thin Clients running non-SA covered versions of MS Operating System
i.e. WinCE or Embedded XP thin clients must purchase WVDA
-Smart phones (iPhone, BlackBerry, etc)
-Apple Products. Macbook, iPad, iMac
-Linux/Unix based desktops or laptop
-PCs with OEM Windows 7 licenses that are 90 days past their purchase date.
i.e. PCs bought in January can be upgraded to SA cover available through
March, but not in April
Sure, you get some "roaming rights". But only for non-corporate owned
devices that access the VDI infrastructure from *OUTSIDE* the corporate
network. So that iPad you brought in on Weds? WVDA required. That
blackberry tablet the company owns? WVDA required.
BTW, you get the same roaming rights with a WVDA, so you can use your
home PC or Mac to access the VDI if you got WVDA for your corp purchased
Sun Ray.
So if you don't want to pay for a MS VDA license you have three options:
1) Don't run Windows via VDI. Use Ubuntu, it's great.
2) If you need Windows, use Terminal Services
3) Buy a PC with Windows 7 on it and run OVDC. Upgrade to SA (if you
can) and then pay 27% of the OS cost a year for a 3 year minimum.
Oh, you directed purchasing to buy Win 7 Ultimate for everyone? Ouch.
-Also, be prepared lose all the security, admin, and power savings of a
true thin client.
-If buying a Windows 7 "cloud PC", please refer to the previous email
about the maintenance costs of the Sun Ray 3i being too high and be sure
to add on all the "extras" you will be charged to manage this "Cloud PC"
in the same manner as you would a Sun Ray.
If you can't make the case for Sun Ray over a PC running Windows 7 to
access a VDI environment, then everyone who makes a non-windows 7 SA
capable device or software client for a non-windows 7 SA capable should
just get out of the business right now.
On 3/16/11 2:03 PM, Ivar Janmaat wrote:
Hello,
Is there any news on the VDA licenses from Microsoft?
The yearly $100 license is hurting the Sun ray business cases.
Is Oracle addressing this issue?
Kind regards,
Ivar
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