No reason to wonder ?!
Although AI from a technical point of view is a good thing to develop, the road
to AI is unexplainable to Enterprise users.
Every discussion I have seen about it is technical but nobody seems to have
analysed what the economic impact is for Enterprise customers.
Sun customers have invested many man years in installation and software
configuration scripting based on JET and jumpstart.
So SXCE was a perfect way of protecting this investment until the AI team has
finished a better alternative.
When AI is finished, the Enterprises can decide to invest in migrating to the
AI alternative.
Deciding when to move, will be up to customer. Never, never push a customer
into moving/investing because it is easier for you!
This shows no commitment in serving the customers.
Solaris has loyal users because they trust Sun to maintain their unbeatable
trackrecord in backward compatibility.
And if you push a customer you better have something that works and is well
tested.
But unfortunately this is not the case with AI yet:
- no sparc support.
- no text interface.
- no supported hooks for hooking up JET and home made scripting to support easy
migrations
These are basic requirements for an Enterprise installation / software
configuration tool.
For instance with JET I can jumpstart a fully configured Sun Ray server which
is after jumpstart ready to ship.
This is not possible with AI at this time.
I can not believe Sun will leave Enterprise customers and return to them when
AI is capable of doing what JET can do for them today.
In my opinion this can take maybe years. In those years Sun will loose a lot of
Enterprise customers because it can not deliver.
AI would be great for end users though, especially students.
So I see the long term strategy and I support it, but I am totally unhappy with the short term strategy. And by the way, students dont pay support contracts.
I am convinced Oracle and Sun will loose money if they continue with the EOL
for Nevada builds whithout a good alternative.
Hopefully someone at Sun will stand up and say that Enterprise customers are to
important to leave behind.
So if SXCE is not extended, there should be a really good alternative for
Enterprise users before the EOL of Nevada.
Kind regards,
Ivar
On 10/13/09 17:02, Dan Mick wrote:
No reason to wonder; it's been explained. Being unhappy about the
situation, I can understand. But is it an insurmountable limitation for
an enterprise to have one x86 box to put the install image onto?
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