TS boxes rock. They make everybody's life a lot easier, especially if
you are in IT and have to manage desktops for your company. At one of my
previous previous previous jobs, way back, I worked for a company with
several sites. They were running off of a SCO based application with
green tubes everywhere. The system worked great, except nobody had
access to features like Word or email.
We replaced the whole infrastructure with centralized TS servers and
thin clients at all of the locations, and it was a snap. Also, we were
able to pay for the hardware and licenses by not having to hire more
people to maintain local workstations (there are no local workstations)
while still offering end-users the new level of required functionality
(as told to us by those up high).
If a thin clients bombs then you just unplug it, throw it away, and
replace it with a new one.
-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... how can they be good at what they do? > > On 08/04/08 21:52, Chris Jones wrote: >> Yeah but you have to go where the money is, plus you can use >> Microsoft's inadequacies to promote Linux. Microsoft is king in the >> enterprise and on the desktop, but Linux really has a stronghold on >> back-end mission critical stuff. For example, in our company, we use >> a lot of Windows terminal servers. They're unreliable as hell, but >> they're very good at what they do. So, you sell clients a server >> running Linux and VMWare. The platform is rock solid and never >> crashes, and in the event that Windows craps out, you simply remote >> into the Linux or VMWare environment, and you can remotely do things >> like reboots, that used to require a call to a data center. It's a >> great way to get Linux's foot in the door for bigger and bigger gigs, >> before long people will be trusting it to do much more than they >> originally expected it to do. >> >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Jeremiah T. Gray <jtgray79@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Bummer it's m$ft. Alabama could benefit from more Linux. >>> >>> >>> On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/04/08 20:24, Joey Kelly wrote: >>>>> http://neworleans.craigslist.org/cpg/782559671.html >>>> Axe to grind, or stating the blindingly obvious? >>>> > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/05/08
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