Hardware was a factor, but not a big factor. It was more about
management. Once you have more than a few machines the man-hours
required to manage systems quickly becomes the most expensive element of
IT. Specific to Windows, we saw that quite clearly as our support costs
didn't rise very far at all even thought we were replacing green tubes
with Windows TS servers and thin clients at several locations.
In the end, I think we put around 100 or so thin clients in place and
hired.. nobody. Yet we could offer the required functionality to our
users, which includes Windows applications, IE or Mozilla depending on
the need, centralized AV, Outlook, strict management via policies, etc.
All in all it was a big win and I've been a huge fan of Windows TS and
Citrix ever since.
-- 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: > On 08/05/08 11:40, Dustin Puryear wrote: > [snip] >> >> Personally, I've just found that it takes less time and less money to >> manage 100 thin clients running off of TS than it does running 50 UNIX > > Because of hardware issues? > > Do you have any experience with ltsp? > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/05/08
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