RE: Thin Clients -- MIDRANGE-L

Here's an interesting article on this topic from TechRepublic.com.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00119990917mik75.htm
<http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00119990917mik75.htm> 

Terry Richardson
Sr. P/A
The Orvis Company, Inc.
802-362-8663


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   John P Carr [SMTP:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
        Sent:   Monday, September 20, 1999 2:35 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L
        Subject:        Re: Thin Clients


                Roger

                After reading your breakdown(below) and the fact (Though
unrelated
        to Thin Clients)
                that you generally need a separate NT server for each
        application(and maybe a couple of
                backup NT's to watch the ones doing the work).   

                I'm  really starting to get a handle on just how strongly NT
was
        designed as 
                a multi-user, mult-tasking, multi-application type system.  

                <<Note that Citrix recommends one processor for every 15-20
users!>>

                Hmm.  1processor for 15-20 users ?    What a great
multi-user,
        mult-tasking, 
                multi-application OS huh?   

                John Carr







                From:   Roger Pence@rp on 09/20/99 12:35 PM
                To:     MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@SMTP@EXCHCONNECT
                cc:      

                Subject:        Re: Thin Clients

                You guys have piqued my interest on thin client computing.
Here are
        some
                costs and planning guidelines for the Citrix product:

                Citrix MetaFrame (runs on Windows NT Server).
                Base server license + 15 users costs $6K
                25 users is an additional 4K

                Total license fee for Citrix MetaFrame and 40 clients =
$10,000
        (this is
                list and there is probably some price diddlying available).
You'll
        also
                need to add the cost of the MetaFrame support/maintenance
contract.

                This does not include the NT Server server license nor does
it
        include the
                cost of MS clients. There, you need a TSE client license and
an NT
                Workstation TSE client license, per client. Depending on
your needs,
        you may
                also need a TSE BackOffice license.

                Here are Citrix's rule-of-thumb capacity planning tips:

                Any server with Pentium II 400 MHz CPU or greater.

                Approximately 32mb RAM per concurrent user with 64mb for the
OS.

                Approximately 250mb hard disk space per concurent user with
500mb or
        so for
                the OS and MetaFrame.

                1 processor - 15-20 users - 256-512mb memory
                2 processors 30-40 users - 512-1024 mb memory
                3 processors 45-60 users - 768-1536mb memory
                4 processors 60-80 users - 1-2 gb memory


                Note that Citrix recommends one processor for every 15-20
users!

                rp

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