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. |
dan10101 |
Jan 20 2005, 11:47 PM
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TORQUE-o-holic Group: Members Posts: 1,140 Joined: 29-April 03 From: Eagle Point, Or Member No.: 626 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I've done it both ways. I'd lean towards PCs as Andy suggested. Use cloaning software to make them all the same. Save ALL files on the network drives that get backed up nightly with offsite storage. Then if someone trashes a PC, you just bring in a spare and they are back in business in 5 minutes.
One of the downsides to Citrix or whatever is that if a server goes down, many are down. Unless you can spring for several servers that pool resourses. It's much more IT intensive. You need trained IT people to make it work good. |
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