I am considering a few different scenarios to provide to the developers in the company I work for.
One of the scenarios I was considering is to provide about 12 developers with low spec'd desktop machines (800Mhz with 256M RAM) a powerful server for them to run all their IDE's on. The server I was looking at providing them was a dual 3Ghz Xeon with 4G RAM running Linux. And then run on that server multiple desktops via VNC one for each of the developers. Then the developers can run their IDE's on the server through VNC with their low spec'd desktops.
I was really just wondering if anyone else has encountered a simalar setup and whether this will work well. The other option of course is just to upgrade everyone's desktops to 2Ghz 500M RAM.
The IDE's the developers want to run are: Borland JBuilder Oracle JDeveloper IntelliJ Eclipe Zend PHP IDE
From what I can gather each of the IDE's require about 500M RAM to run. Soassuming that the server will only ever have 7 IDE's running at any one time, this will equal 3.5G. Then the other 500M can be used to run the VNC sessions the OS and everything else.
What are people's thoughts on this. Will it work or am I trying to make things too complicated for myself?
Also if people think this is a reasonable approach am I best off going with VNC, or is some other remote desktop management tool worth looking into?
Much thanks for any input on this issue. Chris
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