On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Rich Smrcina <[email protected]> wrote:
> The outcome of Bernie's experiment will certainly be interesting. The > cost-efficiency will be a huge factor; essentially how may 'office > suites' can be displaced on an IFL. If 300 people (for instance) can > use OO.o on s390x, some (possibly small) fraction of them may be in use > at any one time. You would also need something to bring the GUI from your Linux guest to the end user. You certainly don't want the end-user to have a pure X-server on this desk. Even for something like VNC you need to be pretty stubborn to enjoy it. I'd expect a web-based office suite (like Google Docs) with the back-end on s390 would be more competitive. No idea how useful Citrix is these days with modern connectivity. Must be reasonable since many people use that. I used it back then on dial-up connections and found it just workable because you could not get there otherwise (like running Windows office applications on the Linux desktop). Are the Linux solutions comparable with that? Obviously for headless operation like Gerard mentions, these issues don't count. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
