Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 28, 2005 09:10 AM
"The savings comparison didn't compare Apples to Apples. The new server running Linux could have been set up with Windows and run Terminal Services while the clients run the client software at the older workstations instead of the Linux client software." Except that Linux Terminal Server runs the whole shebang. There is no "client" software in this model. And cost-wise you are looking at Windows + Terminal Server + Client Access Licenses + Terminal Server Client Access Licenses + per seat licenses for each piece of software that you want to run. This hardly compares to add a computer without a hard drive to the wire that LTSP allows.
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Re:Flawed savings comparison
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 28, 2005 09:10 AMExcept that Linux Terminal Server runs the whole shebang. There is no "client" software in this model. And cost-wise you are looking at Windows + Terminal Server + Client Access Licenses + Terminal Server Client Access Licenses + per seat licenses for each piece of software that you want to run. This hardly compares to add a computer without a hard drive to the wire that LTSP allows.
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