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[Ryan Powers]

Jay Ashworth said:

> I will assume, though, that you mean "Linux Filepro on a Linux server, and
> a terminal session", as I was suggesting.

Well, no. I muddled that a bit by mentioning what I know versus what I was 
was trying to resolve.

They want a Windows server, we may pass them a turnkey solution from fP and
be done with it. If it solves the problem, great. If not, then perhaps Anzio
will do it. In any case it will be a Band-Aid fix for one problem child out
of, I don't know, dozens and dozens of happy customers.


> The problem is: Terminal Services is *expensive*: you have to pay for the
> client OS (though you probably have already, *and* for a server-side OS
> for each client (effectively; it's not quite as expensive per seat as a
> copy
> of Windows for the client, I gather, but it ain't cheap.  And it requires
> a 'business class' OS on the server; NT4, 2000Pro, 2003 or 2008.
> 
> Why I said it's likely less expensive to serve from Linux *even* if that
> requires some reengineering.
> 
> Good luck with it.  :-)


Heh. I'm not even likely to lay eyes on it, just may hear word of its
success
or failure. But this should generate some interest in Linux. There *has*
been
some movement towards a new cloud strategy (I hate that word, but I might as
well
play along) and if that continues to gel, then this mapped drive issue will
quietly go away after a couple of years. It is too complicated to suddenly
switch
to Anzio or the the like for new installs at the moment, but it is evolving.


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Ryan Powers
Bulldog Software, Inc.
http://www.bulldogsoftware.com