Rob,
We have been using Sunrays since SRSS version 1.0 in 2001. But
now, we are in the last phase of swapping out our sunrays for Wyse
clients. Two years ago we evaluated Sunray 3's, HP thin clients, Wyse
clients and NComputing. For Engineering school we were mainly concerned
with graphical performance with large 3D applications like AutoCad and
ProE. In our testing Ncomputing won out in terms of price and graphical
performance. But it was not Enterprise ready, in that the graphical
performance dropped drastically once the thin client was on a different
subnet than the terminal server was on. So Wyse clients was our next
choice and performed very closely to the Ncomputing devices in graphical
performance.
So for past two years we have been swapping out our 500+ sunrays to Wyse
clients, model Z90S7s and should be completed at the end of this
summer. At which time I guess I'll be taking myself of this list.
Advantages of Wyse we found:
1. Simple management. They are pretty much stand alone devices that do
not need a complex server back end to support them. You just need one PC
station with Wyse management software which is free and can support up
to 500 clients.
2. Graphical performance and USB support was much better than the Sunrays
3. They come with Citrix, RDP and VNC support
On 5/3/13 7:20 AM, Schultze, Robert - Technology Services Server
Technology wrote:
We are also struggling to find a thin client solution that users embrace and is
easy to manage. With only about 150 Sun Rays in an environment of 6000
computers, there is just not the critical mass or management support at this
time. In my opinion Sun Rays need a 300+ implementation in order to be cost
effective. Curious what other say about this. It appears that other non-Zero
clients require less critical mass and expertise.
I concur that the Sun Ray technology may be neglected by Oracle and therefore
will fade away. Very unfortunate since virtualizing the desktop and thin
client technology looks to be promising. Wyse (Dell) and others will gladly
take the market share.
Rob
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At lunch I ran into some colleagues that were switching from Sunrays to Wyse
thin clients. So naturally I ask them why and the response was
cost. I have not gone through the exercise of pricing a Sunray
configuration compared to a Wyse terminal configuration but probable will have
to in the near future. Has any body in the sunray group gone through the
process of justifying the Sunrays over the Wyse terminals ( including server
cost) ?
Steve
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