Monday March 14, 2005

JDS Preview usage up 10%

Last Thursday night we made Java Desktop preview the default Sun Ray desktop environment at Sun. We upgraded more than 600 servers world wide over night. In my mind the fact that we can upgrade more than 30,000 Sun Ray desktops in one night is pretty darn impressive.

In the interest of honesty I do have to tell you that Murphy did strike Friday morning. At our Broomfield campus we had a SunRay outage completely unrelated to making JDS Preview the default. Of course since the only thing users knew to have changed was JDS preview they assumed that we were the cause of the outage. We are doing damage control and even in Broomfield we are seeing CDE usage drop.

In my post last week before we made the change I said I would let you know how much the percentage of users still using CDE changed. Last Thursday it was 45% and when I just check a few minutes ago it had dropped to 35%. That is progress. Over the next week I think it will go even lower.

Our focus is changing now from JDS preview to the Solaris 10 rollout. We are putting the Change acceptance and roll out plans together. After quarter end we will move full speed ahead to deploy Solaris 10 across our Sun Ray environment.It is great that most of our users will already be familiar with the Gnome desktop environment