[ILUG] Re: Solution needed for terminale server licensing problem.

[Marcus Furlong]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 11:54 in
<558902f60708140354gead9351h140c9f8d953da39d at mail.gmail.com>, Kevin Chen
wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The company I working currently has a problem about Windows 2003
> 
> terminale server Licensing. The thing is we try to setup a Terminale
> server
> 
> using Windows 2003. But for each thin client try to connect to it we need
> 
> to buy a License, and that cost huge money as company has more than 100
> PCs.
> 
> I did found there is a LTSP project under Linux may help, however there
> 
> is another problem the software part, once connected we also need to run
> 
> application on the server eg. MS Project. The way MS charge license
> with MS Project
> 
> also per devices or per users, this cost huge money too! MS really are
> too greed : (
> 
> So I wonder if any better solution can overcom or at least reduce the cost
> ?

How about openworkbench[1] running on wine, on an xserver running xrdp[1] so
that linux+windows clients can connect?

[1] http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1833 (apparently working well
now on wine, able to import MS project files)
[2] http://xrdp.sourceforge.net

Marcus.