On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Manuel Camacho wrote: > Dear Friends: > > At the office, the management is thinking about changing all the network > from Novell and Windows to Linux. But, we require some software that only > exists in Windows version, such as AutoCAD and MSProject. > > I know there is VMWare and Win4Lin, but, is it possible to let all the MS > software and a VMWare or Win4Lin in a "server", and let all the Linux > workstations access the MS software on this server??? > > Would a VMWare/Win4Lin required on every client?
If you know what workstations would want to run the software, you could just have several VMWare licenses on these workstations and have a Samba server serve the software (autocad and ms project shared installations on a server are possible, I think...) to the Windows OS'es clients running under VMWare... Performance-wise, it's the best solution... If you're loooking at a Terminal Server solution, then you could either use some of the VMWare GSX/ESX server solutions (if you really want to have your native server OS under Linux) or you could setup a w2k server with MetaFrame and then deploy metaframe clients on the Linux clients (that solution is around 5k US$ for software only, perhaps more). > As you may guess, the idea is to avoid paying the MS licenses. That's not gonna happen.. If you run a copy of windows NT/2k/9X/DeadMeat under VMWare or win4lin, then since it's a copy, you have to pay for the license.. However, if you mean by this that you don't have to buy two copies if you have two users which are using the software but only if a one-after-the-other mode, then it's true you will reduce the number of licenses (from two to one in this case). Your only way not to have to buy a license from M$ is to run your apps under WINE.. without any M$ DLL installed and I don't think that will work for Autocad.. And of course, you still need the licenses for Project and Autocad. ,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-, Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. STEP project. _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique. _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,. Linux Xview/OpenLook resources page _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~' http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._ [EMAIL PROTECTED] They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
