Citrix vs. VNC

[epsas at inflicted.net]

Well, VNC doesn't create discrete desktops for every client like Citrix.  So unless your Filemaker client can run on Unix/X, everyone will be sharing the same display.


On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:57:24PM -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> 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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