Ivar, You make some good points. However, my feeling is that because for the past 10 years people only heard of Wyse, Dell and HP, they will not think that these vendors do not have the history of product development. Add to it that Dell and HP are a platform of choice for a lot of customers in their datacenters for servers and sometimes even storage, I think Oracle/Sun has a steep hill to climb. I am also concerned about some "reversed opinions" that customers may have. What I mean by that is a situation where customers keep hearing about PCoIP and HDX these days and do not realize that PCoIP is very much like ALP protocol that Sun has had for years. So when we will have a conversation with them about their VDI project, they will be thinking "ALP... oh yeah, VMware has had it for a while now" as opposed to "ALP... Sun had it for while and VMware is just now validating the advantages of such protocol". Bottom line is that I think Oracle/Sun need to throw their hat in the rink as soon as possible. Otherwise, I fear they will be an "also runs" instead of a leading VDI/thin client solution vendor. Again, I could be totally wrong here. I am just expressing my concerns and eager to hear people's opinions.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vitaly Tsipris Systems Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ivar Janmaat Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:01 PM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Microsoft RemoteFX I just attended an Oracle presentation today. Sun Ray and VDI are definitely on Oracles roadmap (as is Opensolaris for those who were worried about that). The overall message was basically: integrate products in a modular fashion so customers can buy integrated products or mix and match modules. Although the Oracle guys are going through a steep learning curve as it comes to Sun products, I belief their ideas about how to deliver and support a product are good. I really think Oracle can turn the Sun Ray around from the best kept secret to a number 1 selling product. So I really am looking forward to working with Oracle to make this happen. I do see competition but if there is a market, you will get competition eventually. So I see competition as a good thing. If after 10 years we still would have zero competition then we are certainly on the wrong track. In the past 10 years Sun was pioneering in a market which was not ready for centralized computing. The next 10 years will be a totally different ballgame. The market is moving into a period of the adoption of centralized computing. Investments in this area will increase. Competition will heat up. The shakeout will happen. Sun can show that is has developed this product over a 10 year timeframe. Newcomers will have to prove they can sustain product development over such a timeframe. So the starting possition of Oracle is sound. They have money to invest (also in marketing) so I don't see any reason why the Sun Ray should not be one of the best desktop solutions around in the next decade. Ivar Vitaly Tsipris schreef: > I think it is not a matter of easier but a matter of choice. For a > very long time SunRays were the best thin clients out there but were > the best kept secret too. Now everyone else is coming out with zero > clients (Dell, Wyse, Devon, etc.) These "newcomers" are known due to > their marketing. With Oracle seeming to go their own way, I fear that > SunRays will remain the best kept secret. And if before we could argue > that SunRays offer something nobody else does, these days it seems to > apply less and less. > I would love to hear this community thoughts on this. > > P.S. Dont get me wrong. I still pitch SunRays to all my customers. It > is just harder and harder to convince them that SunRays are the ONLY > way to go. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Vitaly Tsipris > Systems Engineer > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
