On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 13:31, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > One of my clients is planning to upgrade their network, and I'm pricing MS > (Terminal services + a whole n/w of new desktops + licenses - ouch). What > I want to do is put Linux on all the old desktops, and have graphical > access to 1 windows machine - what can I run on Linux that will do this? > > I know I can use VNC, but it's a bit clunky, especially since the 1 > Windows app that the users need to access is their main app (which they > use all day). > > Anyone had experience with the Citrix ICA Client running on Linux? It > looks promising. > > Any other hints as to what I could use? > > -- > Sonia Hamilton > . > "The spec said Windows 2000 or better...so I installed Linux"
Sonia, This does not answer your question directly, but there was a "competitor" to Metaframe being developed by the old SCO called Tarantella. You set up a Tarantella server (which could be on Linux) which provided some sort web based interface to clients. The Tarantella server then talked to the application servers. This setup appeared to be much more platform independent than Metaframe. I don't don't know how it deals with Windows client access licenses but I guess it has some some per user cost itself. It is some time since I read about this software, but at the time I was VERY interested. Tarantella was NOT sold to Caldera when they bought SCO and they now appear to be a separate eponymously named company (http://www.tarantella.com/). Finally, when you have done your sums, it might be worth asking your client how much it would cost to REPLACE the application which holds them hostage with something a little more platform independent. Consider the long term costs of staying with it as well. Brendan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
