rudedog, this brings up an old, old question of mine. Why not a two-user PC? The one hole, hardware wise used to be the keyboard, but with USB that's no longer the case either. Fast as hardware is today, there's plenty of situations where monitor + display card + keyboard + mouse+ another 32meg memory or something would be pretty cheap, compared to a 2nd system. Especially if you count maintenance and support.
That is a semi-rhetorical question, I know there's dogma at work here. But somewhat related, I've read all these stories about WTS and how Microsoft was carefully crafting the licensing cost so that they would be assured the same money for an account on a server as they got from a standalone PC, more or less. Coming from the unix/X world, where casual multiuser use of workstations has plenty of utility, even if everybody has their own machine, this seems silly. Not in terms of the business model, of course. Any thoughts or information on that? The only contrary story I've read said it'd all be free, it had something to do with killing Citrix.
Cheers, Dan. |
