"Saintor" <sa******@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote in
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Windows Terminal Server. Period. End of Statement.
Hum. www.realvnc.com
VNC is not comparable at all. It doesn't allow multiple users to run
independent sessions on a single machine, and it's not even close to
performing well enough for someone to work in it full-time.
There is an entreprise edition. Cheap and light. My biggest
client (largest steelmaker in the world) uses it.
Windows Terminal Server uses native GDI graphics calls, and thus is
very, very fast. VNC just pushes bits across the wire, which makes
it substantially slower. Unless the enterprise edition also uses
Windows GDI calls (something I'd doubt, given VNC's multi-platform
origins), then it can't possibly perform as well as Terminal Server
at any cost.
And Windows Terminal Server is not all that expensive in terms of
licensing costs (there would be corresponding hardware and
telecommunications infrastructure costs for a VNC-based solution),
since we're talking about a circumstance where the users already
have Access, so there'd be no need to acquire the Office licenses
necessary to run an Office app in WTS. The TS CALs are around $40
apiece, which is not a very high fee. There is no additional server
cost, as WTS is built into Win2K Server and Win2K3 Server.
In short, much as I like and use VNC (for support, troubleshooting,
etc., with individual users), it is simply not even close to being
comparable as a solution.
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