[nzlug] expanded workstations vs thin clients

[Martin Baehr]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:16:02PM +1300, Simon Bridge wrote:
> The articles I linked in the previous post have some problems. For eg.
> for some reason the author thinks you need twice as many PCs as seats
> for the fat solution.

the article seemed to imply that the pcs need to be upgraded/replaced
after 2.5 years, while the thin clients would be good for a whole 5 years.

that is possibly true, but then at least the thin client server would
need upgrading/replacing as well. (i think that was considered)

greetings, martin.
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