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ProPalms TSE Anyone?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-expensive-than-Citrix dept.

burt-not-ernie asks: "Our company is beginning to rely heavily on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services. We started with just a few outside salespeople and then added the folks in our remote offices. Everyone is loving it. Now, we want to add an additional server, publish applications, and do load balancing. It's time to find a third-party product to enhance Terminal Services, and I just about fell over when I was given a vendor's quote to install Citrix. I used Citrix at my previous place of employment, but we had been using it since the days of OS/2, so the upgrade costs were not so bad. Purchasing Citrix is just too expensive for us. I have seen a demo of ProPalms TSE and like what I see. The pricing is also very attractive. Has anyone out there had any experience — good or bad — with ProPalms TSE, especially the latest version, 5.0?"

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  1. Can you wait? by afidel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many of the features found in the base Presentation Server package are coming to Longhorn Server. For a quick overview of the changes to Terminal Services under Longhorn see Brian Madden's page. It's generally geared towards Citrix but there is more general TS knowledge there than just about any other place on the web not least of which is Brian himself.

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  2. My Experience by scarpa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I've used ProPalm's (formerly Tarantella's, formerly NewMoon's) product for over three years now. It works as well as we need it to but it's not flawless. The features we use heavily are the load balancing, applicatin web portal (analagous to program neighborhood in citrix) and the ability to publish apps based on our AD structure. For 200 users we have 8 load balanced servers, none of them powerhouses, really.

    Our biggest issues have been with printing support. However, this is not limited to ProPalms, it will be your biggest issue with any Terminal Services application that relies on the client printer configuration. We are in the process of switching over to pure server based printing to bypass the client printer sharing "feature". We have a stupid high density of printers in our organization though, with over 40 printers supporting 200 staff.

    In my opinion it is a legitimate competitor to Citrix and obviously comes with a significant price advantage. Feel free to email me.