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Server-based computing has evolved into an intelligent way to save time, money and aggravation. Out of five remote-display servers, find out which provided the best management, features and performance for
January 28, 2005

Some vendors sent us multiplatform versions of their remote-display servers, while others sent Windows-only models (see the features chart, for all supported application and client platforms). Where possible, we used the product's Windows variety to ensure consistency in our performance tests.

We judged products based on four criteria: price, management, features and performance. To compare prices, we asked vendors to quote list price for one server running 20 clients, with three years' maintenance included. If a product required additional licenses of another product--for example, Windows TSCALs (terminal services client access licenses) or Windows 95, 85 or ME licenses--we included that. See our pricing chart on the left for a cost breakdown.




Remote Display Server Pricing



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Power of Three

We evaluated each product's ability to perform three key managerial tasks: application deployment, access management and client management:

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