Citrix vs. VNC

Jon Reynolds proteon at gci.net
Sun Dec 30 19:57:24 PST 2001


Warren and list,

	We talked about 3months ago about VNC and citrix. At that time you said
that you had people accessing the network from different geographical
locations with speed comparable to citrix. I have been given the ok to
try and implement something similiar here because of the costs of
licensing citrix and M$.What I am faced with is this:

I have a filemaker 5.5 server running on OS X and the filemaker client
running on the citrix server(SMP box with two 1 ghz procs and 1 gig of
ECC RAM). At present we have 50 users of which at any one time 35 are
connected to our citrix server serving up a virtual desktop and a large
filemaker pro 5 database. Some users are in Seattle (we are in Alaska)
and others are spread out over 5 sites within the city of Anchorage.

	Is it possible to be able to do all of this using VNC, and will the
speed be noticably slower using VNC as opposed to Citrix and what
version of VNC could accomplish this? Also, how is printing handled? I
have used the basic VNC server/client and it has slow redraws of the
screen sometimes even forcing me to force redraw the screen. Citrix has
been extremly impressive in its performance even when loaded with the
maximum amount of users. Is VNC capable of this?

Sorry for the long question, just wanted to try and give the list enough
information as to my situation.

Thank You,

Jon Reynolds



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