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To: ericneu who wrote (50051)	9/27/2000 3:05:35 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Most of the terminal services thin clients we have deployed use 100Mbps LAN... that should be sufficient to transmit a 16-bit color wallpaper or browse the internet and see full-color photos. I believe that the deal that Microsoft has made with Citrix is the real reason for this limitation. Which again illustrates one of Microsoft problems: Lots of artificial limitations that the GNU world is not restricted by. One example: Windows NT Backup takes perfectly backup of files onto tape. Also from network drives. You can also schedule NT backup to take a backup every night. BUT NOT FROM network drives!!! I don't know the exact reason why Microsoft doesn't let us schedule a network backup at night, but I guess they want us to invest into backup software. Linux has all the backup facilities needed by a small company built-in. So if you want to set up: - File server - Print server - Intranet server - Backup system - Mail server - Database server This can be done in a small company for $1000 using Linux world. Make it $3000 and you have 24x7 server-down support on all of the above for a year. Consultancy hours for setting up this would probably be $800 over here, making it total $1800 or $4000. In the Microsoft world this would normally be at least $4000 for the software alone, without configuration and support. The hardware would be at least $1500. We would normally charge $1600 for setting it up. This makes $7100 with no additional support. Compare $7100 with $1800, and you will find a competitive advantage in price. The question is, whether the added functionality in the Microsoft solution is worth the extra money. In big installations, the existing equipment and configuration is of high value, and the calculations will look much different. But if you use a calculator or a spreadsheet, you will also find good reason to put Linux on the servers in a big installaton. The more restrictions Microsoft make, the worse the above calculation gets for Microsoft. The above prices are set high for Linux and high for Microsoft, so that the comparisons are in favor of Microsoft.

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