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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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. |
KaptKaos |
Jan 20 2005, 11:47 PM
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Family Group: Members Posts: 4,009 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Near Wausau Member No.: 607 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Thin clients offer some advantages, some disadvantages and some things are constant across possible solutions.
On the plus side: You can use just about anything as a terminal. Less "desktop" support. Easy to add new users. Application control (no one is allowed to install Kazaa or something similar. You can do this in a conventional LAN too, but people dislike it.) Remote Access is just like being in the office. On the minus side: Potential Single Point of Failure (Terminal server's down boss). Terminal Server Hardware Costs (savings you see on the terminal side are generally used up on the server side). Potential Performance Issues - depending upon where your applications live, i.e. not on the server that people are running word and excel on. You need an network engineer to handle "desktop" issues. All of the desktops are now virtual and controled by profiles on the server. You need someone that know these things to be able to manage them. In the event that the terminal server is down, no one can really work. In a traditional environment, the desktops can still function, even if the server is down. Similar. License Costs - regardless of how you use the software (desktop, terminal, etc..) Microsoft still gets their pound of flesh. No free lunch. There are companies that will host all of your applications and "desktops" in their server farm for a monthly fee. You get a T1 to them and they take care of the rest. Sometimes this can be cost effective, but I would generally look to this as a higher level service. Hope this helps. - Joe |
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