On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Amy Tanner wrote: > Might be easier/cheaper to just run VMWare for any apps like that. Could > put the data on a linux samba box. But, you'd still have to pay for > VMWare,Windows, and ACT. Well, if you think about it, the VMWare machines are down unless they're in use. That would make them rather hard to maintain. If you want to maintain them while they're up and running, you can't just fire up VMWare on your local machine and boot the same Virtual hard disks. They're locked. And each VMWare workstation is a seperate install. With Citrix, you have two servers (take the big box you were thinking about getting, devide in half...) When you need to do something to them, disallow new logins to one server. Get it ready to reboot. Eventually there will be nobody on it, or you'll get bored and kick everyone. But they'll just reconnect to the other server. Repeate for other server. And if one has a hardware problem, the other is still going... Unless everyone is admining their own boxen, Citrix seems like a better soultion...but that's just me. :) I love VMWare myself. Cuts down on rebooting. I can just use my real windows install as a WinTendo... :) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org