Thin client as an alternative to office PC
In September, I found an opportunity to reduce the cost of maintaining office PCs by replacing them with HP Compaq t5000 thin clients with Windows CE as an OS. According to an incident of 3 months, I am ready to describe the result.
Users always take innovation in bayonets.
The problem I encountered in the first days of launch is shouting in the style of “return my files, music, pictures and games”, “I need ICQ, Skype, MSN, Yahoo IM, for full-fledged work!”, “I will not work on such a weak computer! And if you do not return to me (a long list of software, mostly IM and multimedia), I will do everything that would cost you (the administrator) a lot! ”There were even attempts to hack thin clients, installations of their software. But the intervention of the leadership quickly cooled the evil heads.
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The average office worker has enough ...
As practice has shown, the average employee in the office needs the following set of software:
1. M $ office 2003
2. Browser
3. Software for reading pdf
4. Archiver
Almost everything else he needs, either for entertainment or there is an analogue in the web.
Issue price
Consider 2 options for the location of the employee:
1. Standard PC
* system unit - 450 cu
* monitor - 250 cu
* a set of standard software (OS Win XP, MS office 2003, AVP 6.0, winRAR) - 500 cu
2. Thin client
* thin client - 250 USD
* monitor - 250 cu
* license for terminal server - 60 cu
It is necessary to take into account the cost of the terminal server itself, but its price can vary greatly. But with a server cost of $ 5000. and 60 accounts, the server price for one client is 83 cu
Total: only at commissioning the price of PC 1200. 1200.e against 650 cu thin client. To these amounts, you must add the cost of the system administrator. For maintenance 60 PCs need at least 2 people. When serving thin clients, one is enough. It also significantly reduces the cost of controlling users, backing up data and reducing the risk of information loss. It should be noted energy savings and noise reduction. Accordingly, the cost of maintaining a fleet of thin clients is about 2 times less than the cost of maintaining a similar fleet of PCs.
A fly in the ointment
as everywhere the rule of 80/20 works - 80% of employees can solve their problems with thin clients, the remaining 20% ​​cannot refuse PCs (designers, programmers, managers). The relatively difficult task of installing additional software on a thin client, bypassing the terminal server.
So to be or not to be?
This decision was made only by you, I have already done mine - yes, for a thin client, to be an alternative to an office PC. This allows you to release significant technical and financial resources and use them to develop your business.
Users always take innovation in bayonets.
The problem I encountered in the first days of launch is shouting in the style of “return my files, music, pictures and games”, “I need ICQ, Skype, MSN, Yahoo IM, for full-fledged work!”, “I will not work on such a weak computer! And if you do not return to me (a long list of software, mostly IM and multimedia), I will do everything that would cost you (the administrator) a lot! ”There were even attempts to hack thin clients, installations of their software. But the intervention of the leadership quickly cooled the evil heads.
')
The average office worker has enough ...
As practice has shown, the average employee in the office needs the following set of software:
1. M $ office 2003
2. Browser
3. Software for reading pdf
4. Archiver
Almost everything else he needs, either for entertainment or there is an analogue in the web.
Issue price
Consider 2 options for the location of the employee:
1. Standard PC
* system unit - 450 cu
* monitor - 250 cu
* a set of standard software (OS Win XP, MS office 2003, AVP 6.0, winRAR) - 500 cu
2. Thin client
* thin client - 250 USD
* monitor - 250 cu
* license for terminal server - 60 cu
It is necessary to take into account the cost of the terminal server itself, but its price can vary greatly. But with a server cost of $ 5000. and 60 accounts, the server price for one client is 83 cu
Total: only at commissioning the price of PC 1200. 1200.e against 650 cu thin client. To these amounts, you must add the cost of the system administrator. For maintenance 60 PCs need at least 2 people. When serving thin clients, one is enough. It also significantly reduces the cost of controlling users, backing up data and reducing the risk of information loss. It should be noted energy savings and noise reduction. Accordingly, the cost of maintaining a fleet of thin clients is about 2 times less than the cost of maintaining a similar fleet of PCs.
A fly in the ointment
as everywhere the rule of 80/20 works - 80% of employees can solve their problems with thin clients, the remaining 20% ​​cannot refuse PCs (designers, programmers, managers). The relatively difficult task of installing additional software on a thin client, bypassing the terminal server.
So to be or not to be?
This decision was made only by you, I have already done mine - yes, for a thin client, to be an alternative to an office PC. This allows you to release significant technical and financial resources and use them to develop your business.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/17020/
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