Hi Jens, Today Dr. Jens Langner wrote:
> As we had some private communication already I knew about your > move to ThinLinc. And to be honest, our organization (ca. 800 > employees with about 200 sunrays) has already decided to move > away from the Sunray technology due to the bad licensing and > similar technical issues you report at your blog. In fact, I am > currently evaluating the Thinlinc technology and its potential. > Our first tests look quite promising, but we have to do some more > testing and financial calculations to judge if moving to ThinLinc > and a different Thinclient would really do good for us. In the > end we don't want to end at the same one way road which we are > currently in due to the disappointing political decisions Oracle > made with the otherwise stunning sunray technology. I agree, in that respect it would be reassuring if cendio were not obfuscating their python scripts ... at least the core technologies are opensource, and they do take our support calls very seriously. > In our opinion, Oracle have to support more than their Solaris or > Oracle Linux, otherwise the Sunray platform has definitly no > future. indeed ... I still think the sunray 3plus is the best thinclinet HW available ... > Nevertheless, we can't simply throw away these 200 sunrays today > but have to keep them running for a few more years. Therefore I > can only hope that I will be able to find a workaround for the > current datastore problem I have been running into due to my > tries to get SRS 5.3.1 running on Ubuntu 12.04. fortunately our deployment is not as large so that our decision to move was not financially restricted, only emotionally. > > Have you done some more invstigation on that issue? At least I > tried to copy the datastore binary from a 5.2.1 SRS disribution > (which is running fine on Ubuntu 11.04) to our new 12.04 > testinstallation. However, the same problem shows up. The > datastore daemon simply refuses to load its own valid config > file. Thus, the problem must be in some shared library the > datastore daemon uses to parse the config file. I tried the same things ... including adding old libraries and stuff ... but to no avail ... what I did not try, but might be interesting, is substituting the sunray ds with openldap cgeers tibi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
