Sorry, I guess I was a little vague. I don't think that the access to information is any better or worse. Oracle discontinued many programs that Sun had for education customers (such as the deeply discounted price list and the hardware grant program), and has made legally using Solaris and Sun Ray more expensive with the new requirement to purchase hardware support in order to receive firmware updates (what if I don't care to extend the warranty?), as well as requiring a paid subscription to use Solaris, and eliminating support tiers. In essence, they have untargeted the education market, which is where students gain exposure to technology and then promote that technology by word-of-mouth after they enter industry. Now, I'm not saying Sun necessarily did everything right, after all, Oracle runs a profitable business right now and was in a position to buy Sun, but these are just some of the things that I don't necessarily agree with in terms of supporting the longevity of the products. On the other hand, what Oracle has done is great for increasing profit margins, satisfying stockholders, and ultimately keeping the engineers paid, which also aren't bad things.
William Yang -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Petra Systems Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SunRay-Users] Regarding Access to Sun Ray after Oracle I do not see any difference between Sun and Oracle regarding access to Sun Ray information. Sun Ray is a tremendous product and I always felt it was a "closely guarded secret" with Sun and maybe not so much with Oracle. That is my perception. SRSS 5.2 has been loaded on a Solaris 10 system x86 and has been successfully tested at least for software development. The installation was straight forward. The only downside I see with Oracle is that their site is more difficult to navigate. But then the Sun site wasn't the best in the world I did like the Sun colors better than Oracle red. Rich Rutkowski Petra Systems 1-888-513-3026 [email protected] [email protected] On 01/28/12 02:00, sun [email protected] wrote: > Send SunRay-Users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SunRay-Users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. view5 + srss (Patrick) > 2. Re: Is there a workaround for bug 12577446? (William Yang) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:44:35 +0100 > From: Patrick<[email protected]> > To: SunRay-Users mailing list<[email protected]> > Subject: [SunRay-Users] view5 + srss > Message-ID: > <CAAXZaVe74rOTaXGRO=9+fM8wnLrXJ=bfucyrjtfwia60nco...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > I am wondering if anyone is already using vmware view5 in combination > with the vmware view connector on sun ray server software 5.x.x. > Or if anyone could tell me if it's officially supported. I did a fast > search on the mailing list but I did not get a hit on vmware view 5 query. > > regards, > > Patrick > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > URL:<http://www.filibeto.org/pipermail/sunray-users/attachments/201201 > 27/bbefbfac/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:32:38 -0500 > From: "William Yang"<[email protected]> > To: "'marty scholes'"<[email protected]>, "'SunRay-Users mailing > list'"<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Is there a workaround for bug 12577446? > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >> To be fair, I do add some level of value to Oracle.? My company >> recently > aborted a VDI rollout using a competing solution for 100 seats with > the intent to use it as a proving ground to rollout to thousands of > seats spanning three continents.? I had pointed out early on that > Oracle has a VDI solution which would easily cover the problem areas > identified early in the process.? While I didn't change the outcome, I was a voice. > >> This was only possible because I have familiarity with SRSS outside >> of my > job. > > I feel like the biggest change after Oracle took over is that it is > harder to gain exposure to Sun Ray and Solaris outside of a production > environment, in part because I think Oracle tends to think in terms of > monetary value versus free marketing value. But what do I know. I > agree with Marty though, there is a lot of value in word-of-mouth. > > William Yang > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > End of SunRay-Users Digest, Vol 96, Issue 27 > ******************************************** > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
