FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Transpower]

Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services wrote on 12/15/2004, 9:37 PM:

 >
 >     Do you really think you could get 250 active users running Terminal
 > Server sessions, even on a powerful Windows 2003 box?
 >
 >     I'm not being facetious.  I'd really like to know.  I tested Windows
 > 2000 Advanced Server a few years ago on a Dell 800Mhz server, dual
 > processors with 512 Megs ram and a 40 Gig SCSI array in it, and it
 > choked by
 > the time I got up to 5 active terminal sessions on it running
 > filePro.  The
 > customer went back to their old peer-to-peer Windows/filePro network...
 >
 >     What do you think has improved?  Do you think it is because you are
 > (probably) running on much faster hardware?  Or, have there been
 > significant
 > improvements on Windows 2003's terminal server?
 >
 > Thanks for the info!
 >
 > Mike Schwartz

Mike:

For 250 users, one would certainly need to have a Terminal Server PC 
with eight or more processors (preferably Xeons); with eight, you would 
have about 31 users/processor.  Citrix is another option (more features 
than Terminal Server, but more expensive).  But, really, would there be 
250 users simultaneously accessing filePro--or 250 potential users, with 
80 active at one time?  Or what?  Microsoft has told me that there have 
been significant improvements in Windows 2003's Terminal Server, 
supposedly in order to be more competitive with Citrix.

In such a large environment, one would have to add users in stages to 
see how performance is degraded.

RWS
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