[OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

[Jonathan Adams]

SunRays aren't easily replaced. they're a very cheap, reliable and
versatile system.

SunRays all support high resolutions out of the box. They all support smart
card technology to connect to the correct session.  They are a true
thin-client, a SunRay client uses less electricity than my set of LED fairy
lights, that I hang in the office at Christmas. The protocol they use is
exceptionally light-weight, possibly even better than RDP, orders of
magnitude better than VNC.

We've looked around for replacements to our system, but because we hot-desk
(it's a laboratory, people walk about all day) most other clients just
don't do what we need.  We've taken to buying up other peoples SunRays when
they sell them off.

They're one of the greatest systems/protocols that Sun produced, but
because the margin was small, their sales guys just weren't interested in
pushing them, except in the 1000s, and because of this they didn't know
what they did, in order to push them in the market ... and with no profit
coming from the line, Oracle dropped the product.

Just my 2cents.

Jon


On 10 October 2013 05:15, Milan Jurik <milan.jurik at xylab.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On st, 2013-10-09 at 17:11 -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> > On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > >
> > > how relevant is obsolete closed source technology?
> >
> >
> > how relevant is obsolete closed mind ideology?
> >
>
> the company responsible for development of all key components stopped to
> sell it to new customers.
>
> > See what happens when you put adjectives together with minimal facts?
>  "relevant" has different meaning depending on whether one uses them; and
> to everyone else, depending on how many people are still using them.
> >
>
> Yes, there are few instalations of OI probably. How important for them
> pulseaudio is?
>
> > "closed source" isn't entirely accurate; there are open source
> implementations of the SunRay Appliance Link Protocol (ALP):
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/softray/wiki/Home/
>
> Without development for more than 3 years.
>
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/lens/home/Home/
> >
>
> Without development for more than 3 years.
>
> > and I've heard about some others too, but have other things to do than
> prove the point right now.
> >
>
> Find some different technology, which has more documentation, more
> attention and has future.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Milan
>
>
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