Sun is announcing new physical right-to-use (RTU) licenses for the Sun RayTM Server Software 3.0. This software coexists with existing back-end infrastructure, such as Microsoft Windows and Mainframe, offers multiplatform support, including the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) and Linux, and virtually eliminates client virus threats.

The Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 requires an RTU license for each Sun Ray Ultra-thin client/desktop or site. Customers can choose from perpetual license packages of either a single seat, 20 seats, 100 seats or a site license. A site is defined as a geographically contiguous campus of one or more buildings sharing a common local area network or campus wide network.

The Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 is licensed to be used with all Sun Ray servers with any supported operating system, and Sun Ray Ultra-thin clients physically located at the site. Remote Sun Ray Ultra-thin clients require additional per seat licenses. This means that the software can be installed on as many servers as necessary to support the number of licensed clients with any supported operating system. These include the Solaris 8 02/02, 9 12/03 OS (SPARCR Platform Edition) and the Trusted SolarisTM 8 PSR3 OS (SPARC Platform Edition). This software also is designed to run with Linux distributions on x86 servers, including the Sun JavaTM Desktop System Release 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 (32-bit only) and SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 8 Service Pack 3 (32-bit only).

Functional differences do exist between a Solaris OS versus a Linux platform deployment. Features available with the Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 only when deployed on the Solaris OS are controlled access mode, non-smart card mobility, PIN-based smart card authentication, direct playback of the YUV-encoded video stream, mass storage and LibUSB API and Sun Ray Software specific SNMP monitoring agents.

Customers with HP OpenView VPO, Tivoli TMS or CA Unicenter can take advantage of this SNMP monitoring feature with its interoperable interface that exists between these management frameworks and SunMC. Sun provides this interface for Tivoli TMS and CA Unicenter. With HP OpenView VPO, Hewlett-Packard provides the interface.

For information on Sun Ray Server Software 3.0 documentation, visit:

http://www.sun.com/sunray/docs.html

For more information on the Sun Ray Server Software 3.0, visit:

http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/index.xml [...read more...]

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