By the way, it *is* just as easy to train someone to use OpenOffice as
Microsoft Office, Thunderbird as Outlook, etc. They all work just about
the same for obvious reasons. :)
-- 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/ Dustin Puryear wrote: > 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.org > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/05/08
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