[Casper] Dual booting Macbooks!!!!

[Thomas Larkin]

We had a Citrix expert out here and he said maximum we could have 100 clients running terminal services to their macs, and well we test from anywhere from 100 to 500 at any given time per a building and there are 5 high schools total.  Our infrastructure would collapse upon itself and create a vortex if we tired to do that many clients.

The only tested method we know for sure that works is Windows.  My boss said he has to have it working, which means I have to have it working.  

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
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>>> "Brenner, John" <john.brenner at merrillcorp.com> 06/30/08 1:58 PM >>>
Ick is terminal server a possibility?  How many concurrent users?   It may
end up being a wash cost wise and be a heck of a lot easier....


On 6/30/08 12:45 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

> Guess I should clarify....
> 
> The old mac version corrupts the database files on intel macs.  The windows
> version works with out a hitch, hence the need to load windows clients on the
> macs...
> 
> Sorry Should have pointed that out to begin with.
> 
> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
> cell:  913-449-7589
> office:  913-627-0351
>>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> 06/30/08 12:36 PM >>>
> The problem is with this software to my knowledge is that it is based on older
> PPC and classic architecture and while it does in fact run under Rosetta when
> it writes results to their database it corrupts it.  This is a problem
> particular to OS X so I think that using a PPC emulator or even an API like
> crossover or perhaps even a virtual machine will all be moot.  We have
> unlimited windows 98 client and I am installing a virtual machine of it right
> now via virtual box.
> 
> We can't pick up a new product because there is no way to migrate the database
> to another technology.  The developer says they promise a web based product by
> 2009, but what does that mean?  All it means to me is that this next school
> year I will be forced to do whatever it takes to get this software to work.
> 
> This is a known issue and is why the developer offered to pay 90% of our one
> year lease costs of WinXP Pro on 6,000 clients.
> 
> I have done this before in iMac labs with Bombich's software and the boot camp
> beta, and it all worked.  However, the 1:1 laptop environment is a bit
> different.  After I get everything up and running I got to make sure the
> machine is still locked down on both sides since our students take their
> machines home, and because the FCC and CIPA require us to filter their
> Internet surfing.
> 
> This will be a project indeed.
> 
> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
> cell:  913-449-7589
> office:  913-627-0351
>>>> "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> 06/30/08 12:24 PM >>>
> On 6/30/08 12:14 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
> 
>> Due to powers that be it looks like I must load Windows on all of our
>> Macbooks
>> for one piece of software.  This is a critical piece of software that our
>> users need and there is no alternative, for a long story short.  So, the
>> software company that is in question is offering to pay for 90% of the costs
>> for windows licenses for one year until they migrate their product to a web
>> based one.
> 
> Any possibility at all that this could work in CrossOver Mac? I know not
> every Windows application works but if it does work for your application
> then it means less overhead.


John Brenner    |   Merrill Corporation     |   IOG IT   |  651-632-4072






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