On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:48 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Erik Buck
<erik.b...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Where did the fetish for installing every single application on the
local hard disk come from ? Isn't it insane to have 35 installed
copies of OmniGraffle using up disk space just because you have 35
licenses ? Why is MS Word on every disk instead of just the server?
... because network interruptions (especially intermittent ones) can
wreak havoc on your running apps. :-) That's my main reason.
This is even more the case for the Citrix/Terminal Server model of
application use, but that's quite popular.
It was quite convenient at the bank I worked at, to be able to change
machines at will because home directories and /Network/Applications
were NFS-mounted. You could even go to another building several
streets away and get the same setup.
Yes, sometimes NFS hosed up and the NeXTStep machines went into
spinning-disk land for extended periods, but it wasn't a crippling
problem, and only happened a handful of times in several years.
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