With all of the licenses you are listing you're assuming that you are starting from scratch in which case you might as well go with Linux out of the box.
I believe that if you already have Win machines, they double as TS client licenses so just don't toss your existing Win CD's before installing Linux.
If you provide enough usable apps on the Linux installs then during the migration process your users should not all be using the TS at the same time so if you go by connection, you wouldn't need as many licenses.
This isn't a free solution, its a (somewhat simplified) migration road map that might get you to a better place in the longer term.
Along the lines of the post above, I could call it "Internet Explorer" and just tell my employees that M$ released an "upgrade." I could do away with the "real" IE once and for all in one fell swoop.
/me heads for early Saturday in the office while everyone is gone
Five simple steps for migrating an office to Linux:
1. Build "beefy" Windows 2003 Terminal Server with apps that existing Windows users "have to have"
2. Install favorite Linux distro on all workstations
3. Install rdesktop on all workstations allowing access to legacy Windows apps
4. Wean users to Linux applications at comfortable pace
5. Nix Terminal Server
My research is somewhat related (and open source) so I thought I'd offer up a link. EBLA does bottom up language acquisition based on visual perception. Here's a short paper.
Sure would be nice if Grand started making bits of code and a few technical papers available. Guess he can't just give it away if its his bread and butter though.
Doesn't scale tend to factor in to the things that destroy your DNA, give you cancer, etc?
The typical hand held razor is bigger than a rat so unless you are using a 6' Braun or an attic-fan sized blowdryer, I speculate that you just might survive unscathed.
Sometimes its Lindash, sometimes Lin-s, sometimes Lin--s. Why the double dash? If they are replacing "dow" then it should be Lin---s. Do we pronounce the "s" (e.g. Lindashs/es)? Please help me.
Research on human language and computer science are heavily intertwined. Love or hate Chomsky, his work in linguistics paved the way for modern programming languages. Anyone who has taken a theory of computation class will be familiar with this. The flip side is that the the leaps made in defining and constructing compilers for programming languages have provided linguistics with a whole new rigor and set of tools previously unavailable.
I can easily see how subtilties in the "rules" underlying various spoken langauges can provide insights that could help to improve programming languages. Problem is that I don't thing very many people are expert enough in the linguistics of rare and dying languages AND computer science to find and make use of these possible connections.
This means that the Java RowSet for JDBC is now a semi-standard part (still a sun.* package) of the JDK and no longer requires a Early Access Developer download.
Our open source SwingSet toolkit for making the Swing components database-enabled/aware will now be much easier to install/distribute. Hooray!
Well since we're reading this it would seem that the l33t script kiddie didn't inadvertently use the collider to create a black hole and/or destroy the universe while "gettin his tunes" so I guess community service is about right.
Shame on the facility for having such weak security.
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I believe that if you already have Win machines, they double as TS client licenses so just don't toss your existing Win CD's before installing Linux.
If you provide enough usable apps on the Linux installs then during the migration process your users should not all be using the TS at the same time so if you go by connection, you wouldn't need as many licenses.
This isn't a free solution, its a (somewhat simplified) migration road map that might get you to a better place in the longer term.
Along the lines of the post above, I could call it "Internet Explorer" and just tell my employees that M$ released an "upgrade." I could do away with the "real" IE once and for all in one fell swoop.
/me heads for early Saturday in the office while everyone is gone
Yeah, not cheap, but cheaper than a full Win deployment and much easier to administer.
Five simple steps for migrating an office to Linux:
1. Build "beefy" Windows 2003 Terminal Server with apps that existing Windows users "have to have"
2. Install favorite Linux distro on all workstations
3. Install rdesktop on all workstations allowing access to legacy Windows apps
4. Wean users to Linux applications at comfortable pace
5. Nix Terminal Server
Great movie, but way too many man-pubes!
I might just bite if it had a cell phone.
The work being done by Deb Roy's Cognitive Machines Group @ MIT might also be of interest.
Sure would be nice if Grand started making bits of code and a few technical papers available. Guess he can't just give it away if its his bread and butter though.
Let's post some juicy excerpts from the book as /. stories and see how may geeks panic and run for the hills.
With Bruce Willis getting older and Ben Affleck not as tough as he used to be, its good that we're researching out other options. Yuck. Yuck.
If you look carefully at the top left quadrant, you can see what appears to be Captain Kirk arguing with God.
The typical hand held razor is bigger than a rat so unless you are using a 6' Braun or an attic-fan sized blowdryer, I speculate that you just might survive unscathed.
Announcing Firebird Linux.
Shame I can't see the article - /.ed already!
from the last millenium , how about this little jewel?
...if someone would finally notice that.
Sometimes its Lindash, sometimes Lin-s, sometimes Lin--s. Why the double dash? If they are replacing "dow" then it should be Lin---s. Do we pronounce the "s" (e.g. Lindashs/es)? Please help me.
Ancient Greek & Latin versions of OpenOffice for l33t classics geeks.
I can easily see how subtilties in the "rules" underlying various spoken langauges can provide insights that could help to improve programming languages. Problem is that I don't thing very many people are expert enough in the linguistics of rare and dying languages AND computer science to find and make use of these possible connections.
Inspired by real life events...Raiders of the Lost Code.
The apps we've developed with SwingSet all use a shared connection.
SwingSet is an open source toolkit for writing database-aware/enabled Swing applications.
Here's a screenshot of my EBLA project using the new default look & feel and the new SwingSet navigation bar.
Our open source SwingSet toolkit for making the Swing components database-enabled/aware will now be much easier to install/distribute. Hooray!
Shame on the facility for having such weak security.
Then how are academics supposed to make money off of their poorly written, poorly circulated texts?