On Friday 18 May 2001 1:10 pm, you wrote:
There are just over 800 kids at the school, so I guess a total of about 1Tb of storage would be sensible. Currently the school is about half Acorn and half Windows, but the Acorns are being phased out in favour of new Windows machines - although they might be new Linux machines if I can make the school see sense :-). Clearly the storage requirements for the Windows software is of a different order of magnitude to the Acorn stuff, so 1Gb per child does not seem overly generous to me.
For our 1600 plus sixth form we give 40 or 80Mb for lower school and 80Mb for year 11 & up with individual increases in the 6th form. 1G id more than I've got on the users server!
Most often when someone needs their quota increasing they either have piles of junk to remove or they have managed to create huge publisher files. (And want to take them home of floppy!)
I'm currently investigating running Windows apps using an LTSP setup. I have been quoted a price of USD 55.99 (per station) from NeTraverse for the Win4Lin server product. Even if you still need to buy multiple Windows licences the fact that you can cut down on the hardware specs more than make up for this.
Have you looked at www.bpbatch.org for thin clients served from Linux? I haven't really looked at Win4Lin but do use VMWare - there are some better
Didn't get very far with VMWare, since out test server is an AMD... Interestingly this dosn't appear to worry Win4Lin. It is though a case of finding something which is suitable for school use, rather than the giving each user an individual copy of Windows.
apps coming out now that many vendors are going web-delivered.
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