To all the Mikes & M's:
I speak as one who has not yet seen the Citrix applications.
I started out life in the computer world as a "wire twister", mainframe computer technician in the early 60's, and ended my
own career as a system administrator of a Tandem Non-Stop based
"Maintenance Management, and Control" System.
My several hundred users were forced to access the system through
2400, 14,400, and finally 2800 BPS modems.
Hundreds of special function "server processes" were running on this mini-main frame system; and duplicated servers were dynamically
started on an as needed basis.
Our users essentially ran "terminal emulators" on thin clients
286's and up.
There is a down side to the "thin client" operation, if you do
not have sufficiently fast (broad) pipes to each person's machine,
the graphic intensive screens take forever to download to the clients.
I occasionally use Fidelity's web site to make trades, and I
fuss and fume, as I wait for a graphic intensive picture Peter Lynch
to appear on my monitor.
We found that by upgrading our field units to Pentiums (this was
in 1995,1996), and creating all of the fancy graphics on the clients,
user availability and satisfaction was greatly enhanced.
I am here to learn, and greatly appreciate the posts.
BTW this is the link to GG's article about The Coming Software
Shift.
Best regards,
Mardy.
seas.upenn.edu |
