OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Bob Rasmussen]

Brief top-post: I'm not sure how many TS servers they will have. And I 
believe the common argument is that the lower cost of central 
administration outweighs the other costs.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- 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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