Has anyone done or seen total cost of ownership analysis of thin
client solutions for GP land???
Alternatively, anyone prepared to report on their real total costs
(per seat) for setting up and maintaining thin client solutions.
At least fat clients have some disposal value at end of life, since
they are still usable as standalones. Total cost of ownership
analysis should include that.
Ian.
At 6:19 pm +1100 23/11/05, David Guest wrote:
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Greg Twyford wrote:
I seem to also remember a previous discussion that got down to the
point of you explaining the licensing costs still paid to Microsoft
for the privilege of attaching thin clients on the network which also
runs an MS server.
Correct me, please, if I have once again misreported the details, but
I know for certain that I lost interest when you explained the costs
of this additional TC licensing.
Yes you always have to pay the Microsoft tax. It's a saving in hardware
and techie time not licensing fees.
And, no, I'm not into remote support and, in fact, I'm in the process
of warning some of my clients against the practice of one of the local
PM software vendors who install VNC into practices for remote support,
without explaining the risks to their customers.
Yes, it's the freeware version, whose web site recommends against its
use over the Internet in favour of a more secure, but not free, version.
I do, however, have a couple of GPs accessing their server via an
IPSEC VPN, so they can have dinner with their family, then work from
their home office. Works great for Medicare Online batching. I'd
prefer to stay away from PPTP, VNC, RDP and PcAnywhere, except where
the latter three are running inside such a VPN.
Every GP wants remote access to their data. I have yet to meet one that
doesn't but I am really looking forward to the day when I can also get
access to other docs' data (on a as needs basis :-).
David
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