The current version of SGD is made clear from the product page on
sun.com - http://www.sun.com/software/products/sgd/
> And if Sun is willing to do this with SGD, then why not Solaris?
Solaris is free and you can get the vast majority of source code for it
through opensolaris.org.
> Nomachine is now offering a "free for life" 2 user version of their >NoMX
> software. Guess which product I am now gaining experience on and >will
> therefore be able to recommend in the future?
I can understand your frustration :)
If you're interested in giving your customers a better solution and
getting to know SGD, get in touch with your nearest Sun office and get
yourself some demo keys so that you can use SGD without any licence hassles.
If you drop me a mail off list I'll hook you up with the right people.
Chris
Blaster wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sgd-users-
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Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 5:37 AM
To: Sun Secure Global Desktop Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SGD-Users] RoadMap
Hi Blaster
Information on the SGD road map would typically be fairly confidential
until close to its release, as with most other software products - you
can't tell your competition what you're up to :)
True, but Sun does make fairly public information about upcoming releases of
Solaris itself.
It's even difficult to find out what the current version of SGD is without
downloading it and doing a pkginfo.
SGD was available to use free in production use to enable as many
customers to get access to the software as easily as possible.
"was" available for free. This supposedly "limited time offer" was never
mentioned in the original press release.
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051130.1.xml
I'll quote it below:
Included at no cost in the new Solaris Enterprise System are:
[...]
* SunRay ultra-thin client software;
* Sun Secure Global Desktop Software.
Sun is offering a risk-free opportunity to explore, develop and deploy on
Sun's pre-tested and pre-integrated software platform. [...]
Sun has committed to open sourcing its entire software portfolio using
industry-standard open source licensing models to allow customers to have
easy and broad access to all of its source code[...]
So one day you can request free licenses and even announcing they are going
to release the source code, the next day free licenses are no longer
available?
And if Sun is willing to do this with SGD, then why not Solaris?
In reality, no customers would ever deploy without a support contract or
access to patches and upgradable new releases - to do so you still had
to purchase a right to use licence and the appropriate support contract.
Of course not. But it's Sun's "here, this is our strategy day...Opps, now
this is our strategy" that really makes Sun look bad.
I am a consultant and it was beneficial for both me and Sun to have free
unlimited access to SGD software for my clients. I obviously still have a
valid license key that I obtained during this supposed promotion, but I'll
be SOL when new versions of SGD come out that no longer honors the old key.
Nomachine is now offering a "free for life" 2 user version of their NoMX
software. Guess which product I am now gaining experience on and will
therefore be able to recommend in the future?
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