Windows Forum

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Citrix

0 helpful
3 replies

by maddiuex

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.
Building a Stand alone 2000 server, and I already have a NT BDC server, the 2000 server is going to be running a Oracle 8 , and the Software vendor states that if the workstations are not windows 2000 pro, then we need to install citrix so that the workstations will not have a problem, NO REMOTE WORKSTATIONS? Is this true. I have a IBM Server dual processor 500 with a gig of ram, Raid 5, and they state that with exchange server on the server, the program will run slow. so In theory if I put a Windows 2000 Server as a standalone and put the Oracle 8 on it, I dont need citrix in a mixed OS enviroment???

3 replies

by erikdr

Hmmmm... quite some elements in the situation which might lead to confusion, and also some in your text. So a few facts first.
1) W2K Server is perfectly capable to handle remote workstations, from Windows 9x upto XP.
2) The problem might be in the Oracle-based application. Double check with the vendor what THIS requires at the workstations.
If that is a minimum of W2K, and if there really are good reasons for that (no such excuses as 'then we can use Group Policy easier' or so, really must have to do with the app), then indeed the only way to run it under NT/9x workstations would be the Citrix-model. Probably only with MS Terminal Services and not the full Metaframe; but the model itself is still expensive (MS licenses and a far heavier server than in case it only runs the database, not the TS clients duties also.)

3) Generally, combining server tasks is not always clever. Exchange and Oracle together on one box, even DualCPU, indeed there can be doubts.
But a relatively simple 2nd server could do the job. The Citrix affair has nothing to do with server capacity but with issue 2, capabilities of the app on the workstation.

At your service,

- The Netherlands

by maddiuex

After weeks of wrangling with the vendor, They had a service pack for their program, after installing the service pack.. It works. Almost spent thousands on new server ...

This discussion is closed to new replies.