Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ ray ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 16:53 \__
>
>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:56:54 -0700, Au79 wrote:
>>
>>> PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
>>>
>>> Ubuntu with Userful's 'Multiplier' offers dramatic hardware and software
>>> savings, literally offering organizations ten Linux workstations for what
>>> they would ...
>>>
>>> <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb439773.htm>
>>
>> Interesting. Our local library has a four seat DiscoverStation from
>> Userful - it uses RHEL.
>
> The part of the story which I found the most intersting is this:
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Ubuntu with Userful's 'Multiplier' offers dramatic hardware and
> | software savings, literally offering organizations ten Linux workstations
> | for what they would otherwise spend on just a single Windows computer
> | with commercial office and graphics software.
> `----
>
> Get 10 Linux boxes for the price of just a single Windows box.
You found it interesting? You must have done : because you dreamt
it. Its not what they said. But then no surprise there.
They *said* you could have 10 graphics heads in a SINGLE PC and use X to
power 10 keyboards and monitors. In other words going back to dumb
terminal computing ....
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| "Our virtualized X-server enables a single Ubuntu PC equipped with extra
| video cards to support up to 10 monitors, USB keyboards, and users
| simultaneously," says Tim Griffin, President of Userful.
`----
And I hate to tell you this, but it would need to be a pretty powerful
PC knowing the overhead of common apps like open office. We wont even go
into the average office worked using their PC as a multimedia player
too.
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