Hello Admin wizards,
our department is going to move in 24 months from one location to another.
Although this is far future for the IT planning, I need to make some basic
decisions within the next two months.
I wanted to ask the list for recommendations in this case.
Situation:
We are a university department with approx. 60 staff members and 500
students. We currently have a M$-PC on every desk plus a user room for the
students with 20 M$-PCs.
Serversided we run a Compaq Tru64 cluster (2xAlpha1000 w/ HSZ40 strage
shelf) and one Alpha 1000 as a mirror. The servers run fileservice (samba),
Webservice (Apache), Print- and ftp - service, internal mailing lists and
so on.
We have the opportunity to get a complete set of new equipment when moving.
So - should we better move to a thinClient/AppServer system (most of our
desks run ordinary office packets) or stick to a pc/leanServer system? And
what would be the server system of _your_ choice in these circumstances?
Thanks for your brainware -
YS, CW
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Dr. Christian Wessely
christian.wessely_at_uni-graz.at
url: www-theol.uni-graz.at
Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 06:32:50 NZDT