Cutting off support doesn't make them non-functional. But does make them more vulnerable over time, and less likely to work with newer operating systems as they roll out. Also, they can't be re-sold, or used in new solutions for customers. It would be like if you went down to the computer store to get a new desktop, and they gave you an old PS/2 mouse and keyboard out of a dusty bin somewhere -- yeah, it'll probably work, but you kinda want new stuff when you buy new stuff. ;)
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Randy <midasx...@charter.net> wrote: > I have a question of the Dell Wyse P25 Zero Clients can they connect to > an RDS server farm. I have about 130 sunrays a mix of sunray 2 / 3 and 3i's in > a RDS server farm.. > > And i see it looks like everyong leaving sunray cause of cut off of > support but that dosn't mean you cant still use them.. > > So what if they cut off support use them till ya can't use them anymore is > the way i look at it.. > > But was checking out to see if those wyse terminals will work in an RDS > server Farm.. > > Thanks > > Randy Martin > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* John Stewart <john_stew...@carleton.ca> > *To:* SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users@filibeto.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 01, 2014 3:50 PM > *Subject:* Re: [SunRay-Users] What are sunray users going to do once > Oracle stop support > > On 10/01/2014 01:17 PM, Steven Gelsie wrote: > > I was wondering what sunray users are planning once Oracle stops support > on the sunrays. Do you plan to find a sunray replacement ? > > Both of our teaching labs which are primarily used for our statistics > courses were equipped with Sun Ray devices. It had seemed quite promising > when we converted the first lab to Sun Ray devices six years. However > things changed... > > > - almost all our courses now use Windows based applications so there > wasn't much point in first dropping them into a Linux Gnome session. > - SAS licensing was expensive as we needed our own Windows Terminal > Server type license instead of being able to use individual pc licensing > which the university was already paying for. > - USB flash drive performance was poor and it was hard to get the > system to recognize large capacity flash drives (who is carrying around a > 1GB flash drive these days?). > - Oracle wanted us to pay a yearly software maintenance fee for each > Sun Ray to be able to receive updates to the Sun Ray software. > - Oracle announced there would be no further development of the Sun > Ray technology. > > Last year we reverted to using pc's in one of the labs. As we had no > budget we had to use machines that our central computing department had > taken out of service. The difficulty of managing a pc lab had been one of > the reasons for the switch to Sun Ray devices but this time we opted to use > a slightly modified student image provided by our central computing > department. SCCM is used to image the machines and push out changes so the > management tasks are largely taken care of for us. > > This September we've gone with a Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) solution > in our remaining Sun Ray lab. We are using Dell Wyse P25 Zero Clients so > we have many of the advantages of the Sun Ray's -- low power consumption, > reliability and no noise. USB flash drive performance is good and logins > are quick. I haven't seen any operational problems at all and the folks at > the server end tell us that they are not seeing any noticeable increase in > the load on their servers when a class is running. Unless something > totally unexpected happens in the next few weeks, I expect we'll convert > the pc lab over to Zero Clients in December. > > Our Physics department plan to continue operating a Sun Ray teaching lab. > That's fine with us as it gives us a place for instructors who want a Linux > based environment for their course. > > -- > John Stewart -- Faculty of Science, Carleton University > Internet: john.stew...@carleton.ca 613-520-2600x3707 > "Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad > judgement." > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > SunRay-Users@filibeto.org > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > SunRay-Users@filibeto.org > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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