Most importantly, for me, is the fact that it's open source - I don't have to take the word of MS (or anyone) about feature X or what it is/isn't sending over the network. I (or someone who can read and understand the code) can take a look at it myself and see what it's supposed to be doing.
It also means anyone who can code can fix bugs and add features. Another benefit is that even if you can't code, there are a lot of people who have seen the actual code (what the product is actually doing) and (I've found, anyway) can therefore have more valuable answers to user questions. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: ScanMan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help me settle a friendlly argument 1) Size. VNC fits on a floppy; NetMeeting is huge. 2) Speed. NetMeeting takes forever to load. 3) RAM footprint. VNC is small enough to be run continuously. NetMeeting takes large amounts of RAM. 4) Network Bandwidth. NetMeeting is sluggish even on low-latency connections. Running several NetMeeting sessions will quickly bog down a LAN. 5) Can run from a Web browser. 6) More flexible. 7) More stable & reliable. On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 15:19, Dylan McNeill wrote: > Folks, > Help me enumerate the ways that VNC (and its various flavors such as > tightvnc, tridiavnc, etc.) is better for remote desktop admin (mostly > troubleshooting, some admin stuff) on a LAN (WindowsNT4 Servers and > Workstations, Win2K) running 100Mb (10 mb in a couple places) than > Microsoft's NetMeeting Desktop Sharing services. > Or point me to a web site that does a comparison. The one point he has on me > is that Netmeeting3 is already installed on W2K pro. I counter with the > "push" scripts for VNC. > Thanks. > > ----------------- > J.Dylan McNeill > Technology Coordinator > Oregon Community School District #220 > OCUSD District Office > 206 South Tenth Street > 815.732.4313 > Oregon, IL 61061 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
