Dina,
There is not a huge cost saving in running lots of Terminal Service users.
The "dumb" terminals are compact and cost less than half the price of normal
clone PC's.
We have about 10 in our Head Office (where our Servers are located) out of a
total of 30.
Some of the Terminal Service users need Vantage, but don't use MS Office
applications
(e.g. Factory Floor Data Collection users), so we don't have to worry about
Office licences for them.
These "dumb" terminals are very stable and require less maintenance than
PC's with Hard Drives.
It suits us to have a combination of PC's and dumb terminals.
It would be worth getting some quotes to check whether it is feasible for
you.
Regards
Rodney Warwick
There is not a huge cost saving in running lots of Terminal Service users.
The "dumb" terminals are compact and cost less than half the price of normal
clone PC's.
We have about 10 in our Head Office (where our Servers are located) out of a
total of 30.
Some of the Terminal Service users need Vantage, but don't use MS Office
applications
(e.g. Factory Floor Data Collection users), so we don't have to worry about
Office licences for them.
These "dumb" terminals are very stable and require less maintenance than
PC's with Hard Drives.
It suits us to have a combination of PC's and dumb terminals.
It would be worth getting some quotes to check whether it is feasible for
you.
Regards
Rodney Warwick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dina Hieber [SMTP:dhieber@...]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:06 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Terminal Service
>
> Rodney,
>
> does the cost of the terminal service license outway purchasing ms
> office for every user / basically no pc maintenance - easy upgrades?
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Dina Hieber
> Vamco International, Inc.
> (412) 963-7100 Phone
> (412) 963-9511 Fax
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodney Warwick [mailto:r.warwick@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:56 AM
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Terminal Service
>
>
> We use it mostly for our remote offices (half our total users), but also
> a
> third of users in our Head Office use Terminal Service.
> We use it for both Vantage and Microsoft Office, and find Vantage is
> actually faster via the Terminal Service.
> The Citrix (Terminal Server) users in our Head Office access via "dumb"
> terminals (No Hard Drive). To have more
> Head Office users running on Citrix would also mean purchasing more
> Terminal
> Service licences, which can be costly.
>
> Regards
>
> Rodney Warwick
> The Signcraft Group
> Melbourne, Australia
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dina Hieber [SMTP:dhieber@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:15 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Vantage] Terminal Service
> >
> >
> > I have a question from my boss;
> >
> > Those people who are using Terminal service -
> >
> > Do you use it with Vantage?
> > Do you use it with Microsoft Office?
> >
> > Are there any benefits using it? Pro's / Con's
> >
> > And for those who are not using it - WHY??
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> > Dina Hieber
> > Vamco International, Inc.
> > (412) 963-7100 Phone
> > (412) 963-9511 Fax
> >
> >
> >
> >
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