On 9/14/2011 1:32, Invisible wrote:
> On 13/09/2011 10:05 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 9/13/2011 11:45, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> OK, let me put it this way: X lets you install an application on a
>>> central
>>> server, and have multiple X "servers" (i.e. *clients*) connect to that
>>> server and have their own instance of the application appear on their
>>> screen.
>>
>> Yep. You still need a computer for each user, tho.
>
> Sure. But I mean, you can set up an application server that more than one
> person can access, without doing anything particularly special.

You can do exactly the same thing on Windows that you do on Unix.

Log into the windows box remotely. Start an X client and point it at your 
display. Disconnect without logging out. Someone else logs into the windows 
box remotely. They start an X client and points it at their display. They 
disconnect without logging out.  Guess what? Windows running X clients 
talking to two different X servers.

>> Um, it's $117 online, and that's with five client licenses.
>>
>> Even if you don't find a deal, it's $525. Far from "multi-thousand
>> dollars".
>
> OK, well maybe it's the cost of the client licenses I'm thinking of then...

That's with five client licenses. So about $110/user.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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