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Re: Part II: Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth
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by Anonymous on Feb 12, 2005 - 09:17 AM
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Amen. For any group, even a family going from one old box to a new box + any number of old boxes, Linux terminal service is the way to go. You can put most of your dollars into the server and get fantastic improvements in performance. Who can afford 64 bits/gigabytes of RAM/hard drives in RAID on each workstation? Put the goodies in the server and everyone wins, the client, the IT guys, the comptroller.
The only folks who cannot benefit from thin client tech are the ones who do graphically intensive stuff who need tons of bandwidth to the screen or those who need some special hardware not included in the usual desktop because of requirements like licencing or proprietary interfaces.
Schools, offices, even families going from a Pentium I to an AMD64 can use thin client effectively. I am in education and budgets are sparse, erratic and arbitrary. Arbitrary, in my case, was replacing hardware and software for $300K and putting the old machines in storage. They work very nicely as thin clients ;-) . It is far easier to sneak another server into the system than a truck load of new PCs. Even a fairly standard 64 bit PC with lots of RAM and HD can be bought for $1000 and runs 30 clients nicely. That is cheaper than buying RAM for all the old machines and installing it...
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