I'm thinking you aren't familiar with thin clients used in Windows TS
situations. The whole idea is that there is no hard drive or any moving
parts. It's basically just a little piece of plastic that you throw on
the network to use to connect to Windows TS. As far as booting locally,
they boot from firmware.
-- 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 14:06, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> I don't understand what you mean by: 'Because the driver of cost is >> the number of "complete computers"?' What do you mean "complete >> computer"? You mean with a keyboard and monitor? > > "Complete" as in "has a hard drive, and boots locally, so each PC needs > to be individually updated". > >> "Required" as in "the company needed to support software which they >> needed to sell what they were selling so they could make a profit and >> pay people".. required. :) > > Or... "new additional" as in, they just purchased new software which > only runs on Windows. > >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 08/05/08 13:35, 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. >>> >>> Because the driver of cost is the number of "complete computers"? >>> >>>> 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 >>> >>> "Required" as in "new additional"? > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/05/08
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