We use WYSE S30s for "desktop" users, and WYSE 1200LEs for data
collection. The units themselves are not that expensive ($330 for the
S30s & $260 for the 1200s), but after you tap on the Citrix CAL for $211
& the TS CAL for $72 the cost starts to compare to purchasing a PC.
With the thin client you would also need a server dedicated to them.
After dividing out the cost of the server by 20 users, adding the CALS,
and the cost of the unit, we came in at a break even of $900 / user.
The great thing about all this, is the next network major upgrade should
only cost you the cost of the server. For my figures I calculated $300
/ user ($6000 / 20 users).
I am not totally convinced the Citrix was necessary, but may start
changing my mind after we purchase an additional server for load
balancing.
Bruce Butler
IT Manager
Knappe & Koester, Inc.
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Chris Robisch
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Semi-OT: Thin Clients
At Electroimpact, the speed improvement on 6.x using Terminal Server is
substantial but on 8, negligible. But we'll still use Terminal Server
for the 200 people that float in/out sharing 10 licenses.
collection. The units themselves are not that expensive ($330 for the
S30s & $260 for the 1200s), but after you tap on the Citrix CAL for $211
& the TS CAL for $72 the cost starts to compare to purchasing a PC.
With the thin client you would also need a server dedicated to them.
After dividing out the cost of the server by 20 users, adding the CALS,
and the cost of the unit, we came in at a break even of $900 / user.
The great thing about all this, is the next network major upgrade should
only cost you the cost of the server. For my figures I calculated $300
/ user ($6000 / 20 users).
I am not totally convinced the Citrix was necessary, but may start
changing my mind after we purchase an additional server for load
balancing.
Bruce Butler
IT Manager
Knappe & Koester, Inc.
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Chris Robisch
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Semi-OT: Thin Clients
At Electroimpact, the speed improvement on 6.x using Terminal Server is
substantial but on 8, negligible. But we'll still use Terminal Server
for the 200 people that float in/out sharing 10 licenses.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jeremyrleonard@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Semi-OT: Thin Clients
I've been purchasing Televideo units for about $299 each for the last 5
years. They just recently sold to another company but I was able to buy
23 units for $5.00 each on ebay. They all came in and work great.
Some big hospital is getting rid of all their units.
I dont use Citrix but went with http://www.propalms.com instead. Much
cheaper and does everything I would need Citrix to do.
I love the thin clients. It saves me at least one IT employee. The
only thing I am worried about is Vantage 8.0. Currently I am running 25
+ vantage clients on each terminal server with dual 2.8Ghz Xeon
processors and 4GB ram. If you go by the Vantage 8 specs, I would need
1GB of ram and a 3Ghz processor for each user. It doesn't sound like
the architecture of Vantage 8.0 is very thin client friendly. I would
love to be proven wrong on this. I think the specs on V8 are just
ridiculous.
Thanks
Jeremy
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