Jim, You want unbiased testimonials?? I can't give you that exactly. I'm a firm believer that if the world would dump their MS crap in the river, it would be a better and safer Internet! :-)
That said, I've had some real success with LTSP. We have 15 branch locations in 3 states. Each branch is comprised of a server and anywhere from 3 to 15 thin-clients, depending on the size of the branch. Each server has OpenOffice, Mozilla, ghfaxviewer, Acrobat Reader, etc., with plug ins installed in the browser for java and flash. We use Gnome on the desktop and the Evolution email client and mostly the system just works. The biggest issue I've had is initially we were using recycled PC's with old 3Com Nics loaded with a Boot-ROM. We had a fair amount of service-calls relating to these older units. I started purchasing PXE bootable PC's from I-Dot PC this past year and replacing units as they go belly-up. This PC (Web station) has no hard drive, comes with a CD (although you can specify the units come minus for a savings of $25 to $30). I've been buying cheaper 15" Viewsonic monitors, which have worked well for my needs. On top of the branches listed above, We recently deployed an Internet community center with 10 LTSP Diskless Workstations, 17" Industrial NEC Monitors. Hope this is what you were looking for. Thanks, Steven G. Spencer On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 07:21, Jim Glutting wrote: > LTSP users, > I have a client that I am trying to convince that LTSP > workstations are more cost effective and more reliable > than new PC's running MS, and that users are able to get > their job done with non-MS software. > I am requesting any success > stories or testimonials from small to medium size businesses. > This customer is 'comfortable' with the MS solution, so I > would like to present to him some unbias testmonials. > If you know of any links on the web, or have a story to tell, > please post it to the group. > > Thankx, > JAG > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -- Steven G. Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
