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

Did you just compare pine to terminal server?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:01:54
To: <nolug@nolug.org>
Subject: Re: If they're unreliable as heck... (was Re: [Nolug] someone's got
 an axe to grind...)



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?
>>>>>

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Scientists are people, too. IOW, they also "crave power, money,
respect, and influence, and they also fear for their jobs. Each
can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a
good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn
a good scientist into a charlatan."
http://thefutureofthings.com/book/3/the-bomb-that-never-was.html
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