Hi Aaron I've just come out of the ZFS/ZS3 training and learnt that SPARC may also be on the way out. Also the ZS3 warnings pointed to "It just doesn't work with VDI" coming out of the engineering team as the devices have been tuned for Oracle databases. Sounds like it was multiple reasons with a DATABASE vendor taking priority. Regards Jeremy.
>>> Aaron Browne <gopo...@gmail.com> 18/10/2013 2:57 PM >>> Hi Everyone, Is anyone able to point me in the direction of a real explanation as to why Oracle is choosing to discontinue their Sun Ray products? Our company has 370 Sun Ray devices in service. The models vary but we are running Sun Ray 1 through to Sun Ray 3. We chose Sun Ray for obvious reasons. Simplicity, ease of setup, central administration, flexibility, low power, smart card roaming and long service life. The decision to end development of Sun Ray technologies by Oracle is not a very positive step for us. Almost our entire desktop solution is based around Sun Ray. This has a flow on impact. Most notably, Oracle can no longer deliver the entire virtualisation stack from client to server. Oracle will completely lose desktop presence here. Decisions people make on the desktop will impact what is chosen for the back end. This will mean that Oracle hardware is less likely to be purchased purely based on best fit. To me, the decision to halt development of Sun Ray technologies is not obvious. It is a backwards step. If anything, I would have anticipated a bigger push, especially considering the huge emphasis on security, efficiency and cost effectiveness in IT. Cheers, Aaron
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