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

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:03:21AM -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> WP?

Widespread Panic.

B

>
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> Dustin Puryear
> President and Sr. Consultant
> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
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>
> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
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>
> 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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