John
I have not sold a 'Server and network of PC's' for about 4 years, We
#Highly# recommend to our clients a TS and thin clients, the reason is
cost of ownership and remote access. Yes you may consider TS as
Terminals with graphics but the PC boom was on the basis of GUI
usability, TS is the best of both, central management / thin client
Thin client shipments grew 39% last year which says something
> I still see lots of character based screens in businesses
yes but these are archaic now, try and develop for them, PICK anyone?
Neven
John Bird wrote:
I still see lots of character based screens in businesses that I bet are
terminals to a Unix/linux server...I used to do apps where one Pentium
server would support 20-30-100-200 dumb screens. Much more efficient than
TS, and decades older. GUI? There were GUI terminal addons (eg run on an
old surplus PC), and I think even X-Windows is largely distributed over a
network.
I presume you are not saying linux/Unix has no equivalent of server-based
processing...(because that's what it primarily is, and TS is largely an
attempt to mimic this especially for remote connections).
John
Paul
The problem with Kylix was a tiny demand for Linux Desktops, This is
compounded by Linux having no practical equivalent of >Terminal
Services/ Citrix
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