OT: Thin Clients, Anybody know anything |
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OT: Thin Clients, Anybody know anything |
Qarl |
Jan 20 2005, 11:13 PM
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Shriveled member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,233 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Florida Member No.: 271 Region Association: None |
Looking to upgrade one of our offices. It has 30 PCs that are about 5 years old.
Everybody runs the same crap. Microsoft office Adobe Acrobat Internet Explorer Terminal Emulaton programs Anti-virus software. Looking at thin-clients as a replacement solution (less IT management of each PC). How does software licensing work? I know you have to have the terminal server with enough client access licenses for each machine? What if I wanted to run Microsoft Office? How does licensing work? Do you buy one license (since you only really running one copy?), or do you have to have some sort of user license of each terminal running it? Same question for other applications. Anybody with any real world experience? Thanks. |
rhilgers |
Jan 21 2005, 11:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 17-July 03 From: Santa Clara CA Member No.: 919 |
Thin clients dont pay off under 150 workstations.
I did the worlds first full PeopleSoft over Citrix rollout years back when I worked at NEC. I can tell you vendors have no idea how complex it is and how thin clients show every weakness in software. But..since you asked... Licencing is for CONCURRENT useage for most apps. MS office is the easist to deploy and Citrix / Term services include semi-automated installs for it. Security is next to none. A savy user could see anyone elses data. A real stupid user can crash the system. The core of the issue is that each user needs full access to \system32 files on the server. Lockup whatever toolbars and features you want. As long as so much as an Excel macro can run, its all downhill from there. Like others have said. 1. Use Ghost. 2. If you can just stop using IE and switch to Firefox. This solve most of the adware issues. 3. Use OWA or another web client instead of Outlook 4. Setup the print server to allow printers to be mapped through the browser. This way a user could recover from a meltdown and still be productive without intervention. -Rich Hilgersom |
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