: Michael Milette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Unless you are running on a UNIX platform, the most obvious difference to : me is that VNC does not offer the option to have multiple concurrent users : make use of a single server.
Even "running on a UNIX platform", windows apps aren't ruled out. Eg, consider; run multiple guest-OS windows sessions under VMWare, and they can be shared by either X or VNC, depending on details of plumbing. And if your requirements are less stringent, you can have those multiple users use crossover/wine instead of VMWare, and therefore make the required server box much smaller (memory/disk wise). Mind you, this is NOT to say VNC can do everything Citrix does nearly as well as Citrix does. The two have an overlapp, but they are very different products. I'm just saying that for remote-accessable windows apps servers, VNC can provide a solution that meets certain needs. For example, bring up windows on some spare headless pentium boxen that you were going to thow out, and you have a cheaper server farm than you can have with Citrix, affordable by smaller departments than could afford to set up a Citrix server. Granted, less upgradeable, and if people start using the resource heavily they'd want to upgrade to Citrix most likely; but there's a smaller starting curb with VNC. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
