Roger,
You're legal staff is probably right about the licensing.
Anyone implementing Winframe to solely beat some software company out of a software licensing seats is greatly missing the point. Licensing efficiency(legal) is a nice perk but if other issues like reduced administration, reduced cost of deployment and other ownership cost savings are not applicable, one might be even better off just implementing standard server and workstations.
While one might think that Winframe allows one to save money by reducing workstation cost, it increases the cost at the server. In other words, you need a far more powerful, well designed server. Therefore, it might cost more for hardware ... and it could even cost more for software licensing. But, as I've mentioned, this is often a SMALL piece of the pie for a qualified installation.
By the way, there are many installations of Winframe using more powerful programs than Excel and they perform fine and, often, better than expected. These installations had well thought out designs. I could see someone using a poor design or improper setup ending up with crummy performance. But, that happens all the time with all kinds of systems - there is a difference in the quality of system engineers out there.
-N |
