[plug] Re: Re-attaching to GUI apps (Terminal Server comparison)

[Michael Hunt]

> Perhaps most telling of all, the total licencing cost of any of the above
> scenarious is $0 with Linux, $ghasp with Terminal Server. Put the
> money you
> save into better boxes (a GeForce 3 is about the same price as a
> W2K licence;
> a decent Yamaha sound card is about the same price as a TS seat on top of
> that; an extra 128MB of PC133 SDRAM is about the same as an
> MS-SQL seat - or
> swap 25 Internet Connector seats for a SCSI RAID array or a
> couple of extra
> CPUs. And so on).

Or buy yourself a mainframe with the money you have saved on licensing
costs.

Michael Hunt