Hi Curtis, Thanks for the info, to be honest I think I'd probably rather steer clear of Oracle stuff. With what happened with Sun Ray, even if Secure Global Desktop is safe, it's left a bad taste in my mouth really. Also, we're a very small operation, and although our Sun rep. was pretty helpful, I can't really see Oracle feeling the same way about the pennies we'll send their way!
At the moment I'm looking at Axel devices, like the AX3000, they might be perfect for me, I expect I'll get one to try out. Axel are a small company too, so probably a bit more inclined to deal with other small companies. Cheers Garry On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Curtis Cunningham < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Garry, > > long time lurker here, but felt I could offer input, this (Secure Global > Desktop, aka Tarantella) may be able to help you: > > http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/secure-global-desktop/overview/index.html > > be sure to check out the details on the resources page here: > > http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/secure-global-desktop/resources/index.html > > product documentation here: > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37459_01/index.html > > Yes ironically it's another Oracle product, but the reports are that this > will stick around. I worked as a developer on this when it was originally > Tarantella, and it's been around a long time, very mature, very stable. > Higher profit margins (no hardware component) makes me optimistic this will > persist. > > I'm suggesting it based purely on your stated requirements, which didn't > include using only a Sun Ray hardware device, so if you have other more > conventional clients your users can use, then this may work for you. It'll > work from the smallest seat installation ( a handful of seats) to thousands > of concurrent users and has been doing that for about a decade. > Authentication methods are super flexible (LDAP, AD, local UNIX > groups/users, anonymous/ kiosk style), application persistence is highly > configurable (including never ending the session unless the user kills the > app/ desktop instance). > > Good luck! > Curtis. > > ~~ > Curtis Cunningham > email: [email protected] > web: http://curtiscunningham.com > > > > > On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:19 AM, Garry Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, before I go ahead and buy another Sun Ray... With the bad news about > Sun Ray's future, it makes sense to check out the alternatives. My needs > are fairly basic: > > We run Solaris 10 on SPARC, this will not change. > > We need to maintain a persistent desktop on this server, and have able to > be accessed by several people in worldwide locations, does not need to be > at the same time though. The desktop should persist all of the time, no > logouts, when another user wants to use the desktop, it's simply moved to > their client, and removed from the other user. This is how our Sun Ray set > up works right now. > > We run a CDE/Solaris desktop, no need for Windows. > > Does not need to be fast, just needs to work. > > So what exactly are the options here? Wyse, nComputing? I really don't > know. Sun Ray has been perfect for us for years, and I've never looked into > anything else. RealVNC? > > The critical part is the desktop cannot need to be logged out to transfer > to another thin client. > > Cheers > > Garry > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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