We have recently replaced the systems in our Customer Support area with HP Vectra 500Mhz 128 mb ram 13gb Hdd. These machines have onboard sound and video, 3com NIC’s and are connected to a moderatly large NT domain. The users are required to have the following apps running Windows 98SE, Lotus CCmail or Notes, MS Office 97, Acrobat reader, Oracle 7.3.4 Oracle Developer 6.0, Walldata Rumba (TN3270 Emulator) an internal Powerbuilder app that runs on Oracle, a couple of Telnet apps and another couple of internal apps that also run on Oracle. The users also use AOL IM to communicate internally.
When we originally setup the machines, We loaded all of the critical updates from MS, the latest drivers for the devices, the BIOS updates, I set the swap file space to twice the size of the available ram and then cloned the image with Ghost, We have been deploying since Dec.
Here’s the problem, The users are required to have several app running concurrently in order to service the clients. Through the course of the
