-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I want to see how effective the (now canceled) sun shared visualization software (1.1)* - you can still find it on Sun downloads, will be with a beefed up (and gigabit) sunray. it was almost good enough to allow 3D modelling on a 2FS, and a quite easy IMO to get going in the lab.
Thing is its these edge cases, video, 3D modeling and for some of the security conscious unencrypted audio (not talking VPN mode) are making _universal_ adoption of the sunray in an enterprise (not a call centre) certainly at a science/engineering organization difficult. Its the 5-10% of staff which cannot manage with just a sunray who kill the universal deployment and make a headache for IT assessing/policing who can/cant have a full client. (and IT departments shy away from things which are headaches logistically even if they save $$$, one size fits all is compelling especially when who manages the costs is a often an obscured function) If sunray 3 helps us push all the grunt (including video/3D) back into the Datacentre where it belongs, and kills those excuses for not going thin, that would be awesome. When it works, its great for the end users as well, if it is a centralized facility, everyone gets a boost when its upgraded (everyone can campaing together to get the upgrade approved), you don't have to individually campaign for _your_ workstation! The office is SO much quieter with sunrays too. About enhancements for video via SunRay windows connector; I think it would be wise for Oracle/Sun to remember that there are other connection combinations out there and it becomes a bit of a disappointment when assessing a solution that has performance features, and flexible deployment options, but many of the flexible deployment options don't support the performance! E.g. Solaris TX + sunray is a powerful/unique solution for a secure enterprise a REAL differentiation for oracle/sun - its disappointing that it doesn't get the engineering time on making it slicker that other components do (and SSGD is actually very cool as a multi access platform which allows access to VDI & other desktop experiences! ) All the above are my opinions and are not representative of any other person or entity I'm not affiliated with Oracle/Sun at all. (but I have used their products) Chris * perhaps oracle might resurrect this one?? Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > Precisely - thanks for summing that up nicely William. Not just Flash, but > video content in general. > > I also have daydreams about a thin client/zero-configuration device that > could support a virtual 3D learning environment, such as (or could have > been) delivered by Sun's own Project Wonderland effort (now Open Wonderland). > > > On 26/03/10 04:12 PM, William Yang wrote: >> Videos, especially Flash. Because of YouTube, users want this more than >> they used to. It's also a reasonable expectation of a modern machine, and >> we are always in the situation where replacing any workstation should mean >> that the new system put there will do better than the old one, thin or fat. >> Users don't care what's there, they just want to see it all work. >> >> We are actually looking at an expanded use of thin clients at the Johns >> Hopkins undergraduate/Homewood campus and I can say that if the new Sun Ray >> models can do better with video than the current generation, that will weigh >> heavily in favor of the Sun Ray. While I have not yet personally seen them, >> I have heard reports that a demo of HP thin clients (which are probably not >> as thin) worked well on the video front. >> >> William Yang >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent Peacock >>> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:37 PM >>> To: SunRay-Users mailing list >>> Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Sun Ray 3 Plus in Google cache archives >>> >>> On 03/25/10 19:10, David Koelmeyer wrote: >>> >>>> Livery needs some work :P >>>> >>>> But seriously, excited to see this - sure hope it's got some >>>> decent graphics processing built into it. >>>> >>> Why? What do you plan to do with i? >>> >>> Kent-- > Kind Regards, > Dave Koelmeyer > == > Senior IT Technician > Faculty of Engineering Administration, University of Auckland > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkusiGMACgkQVL87HwnDMXw//ACfYL9CMYZae78L+WDtkrt8TBxF rRkAn3ICJmIv0EMjIUpiTHKfM+hXh1ZV =ysAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
