Just saying that you might be getting into a bad spot trying to share
one lisc. with 50 clients.
So what are your costs and budget? What are your goals? Can you go with
used hardware? A refurbished mini from Apple is $500 so that brings you
to $25K in hardware at the desktop. If you can go with G4 Minis you can
drop the price even further. A G4 Mini with 1.4Ghz processor can be had
for about $300 ($15K of hardware). I don't know but I have to imagine
thats starting to get close to your thin client cost. As an education
resource with a volume purchase you might be able to do some deals on
any hardware or software needed.
Hope this helps.
CB
Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
It is not arguably for a comercial purpose
Honestly, I have arguably no other alternative but to abandon VO all
together, and I am not going to do that. We need over 6000$ more just
to get this off the ground as I have preposed, and we are not a paid
team of staff, nor is our budget overfunded, but underfunded.
I appologize, but I don't see what else can be done.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 29-Jan-09, at 7:25 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Yup, this is more typical. I know with Citrix servers many of the
licenses had to be special multi-seat versions. At the same time,
using this for education would probably get you a good discount in
addition to the volume license discount. In particular is this clause
in their license agreement:
You may use the programs and manuals on a single computer and copy
the programs for back up purposes in support of your use of the
programs on a single computer, provided all copyright and other
proprietary notices are included on such copy, and true and accurate
records of such copy are kept. The term "Use", used above, shall not
include the right to replicate, redistribute, broadcast or perform in
public the sound files generated by the ACAPELA Text-to-speech
technologies for commercial purposes. This specific type of use of
ACAPELA TTS technology is subject to a separate licensing agreement.
I think they could reasonably argue that you're not using it on just
one computer and/or you are redistributing/broadcasting (to your thin
clients) the audio generated by the software.
CB
E.J. Zufelt wrote:
I'm not familiar with the voices that you're using. But I'd read
the lisence carefully, I bet that it is a per seat / user lisence,
not a per computer lisence.
Everett
On 29-Jan-09, at 12:25 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
No, because it is on one Mac, not fifty.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 28-Jan-09, at 8:19 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening,
Wouldn't you still need 50 lisences if the voice was being used by
50 users?
Everett
On 29-Jan-09, at 12:02 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
The IBM's use Ubuntu via the LTSP project. It is cheaper than
putting 50+ Mac Mini's because the maintance would be high.
Also, we are planning to buy one lisence of Infovox's Spanish
Voice for use by all the students.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 28-Jan-09, at 8:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I haven't seen a Citrix-like solution for the Mac but I've been
out of the enterprise space for some time. Are you sure it will
be a lower cost than just putting 50 Mac Minis without screens
in place? How do the thin clients work? You might be dependent
on IBM for a solution since it's their clients that need to
share to the Mac server.
CB
Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
I am looking at setting up a computer lab for Visually Impaired
students. It is Voiceover/Linux Driven, and any assistance is
greatly appreciated. A list of hardware i below:
50+ IBM Thin Clients
1 network server (possibly virtual)
1 Mac Pro with eight cores and 16 GB RAM.
Now my question is that I need to setup virtual sessesions from
each TC to the Mac to use Voiceover. The problem is that the
only software that will do that is FreeNX which isn't available
for the Mac yet. Is there any solutions. FreeNX will include
support for Mac in version 4.0, but in the meantime I would
appreciate any free solutions.
Thanks,
Alex,
