OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>

> What are you gawking and balking at? It is quite common for people to run
> a TS server with multiple sessions of terminal emulation, served out to
> thin clients. I just sold a 500-seat setup. Because terminal emulation
> places a relatively light load on the processor, it might just be ideal!

500 seats of Windows Terminal Services, whose primary use is to run a terminal
emulator to talk to a Unix machine?  Really?  I sure hope there's some other
justification for 2 layers of Windows...

If you got a *stunning* deal on 500 seats of hardware thinclient, that might
*just* be justifiable... but my experience of WTS, and of large installations,
is that you're arguably better off just putting PCs at the desks, and running
the terminal emulators there.

Boxes--no, clusters--big enough to host 500 seats of WTS are *not* cheap
toys, and the price of your talent goes up disproportionately, as well.

And, IIRC, license-wise, it's actually *more* costly to deploy the central
Windows cluster.  

No, I just can't see it... and I've been architecting installations 
in that size-class and the 2 below it for nearly 30 years.

Cheers,
-- jra
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