Re: If they're unreliable as heck... (was Re: [Nolug] someone's got an axe to grind...)

From: Dustin Puryear <dustin_at_puryear-it.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:03:21 -0500
Message-ID: <489879C9.1060300@puryear-it.com>

WP?

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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:
> 
> WP and Pine.
> 
> On 08/05/08 07:59, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> 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?
>>>>>>
> 
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