That would be a shame if it were true, I hope it is simply 'what some dude reckons' rather than hard information. Would be a slightly strange move as I understand Oracle spend more on SPARC now than Sun did.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Jeremy Stagg <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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