Scalability of Office Suites on Terminal Servers

Posted by Benny Tritsch on May 10, 2007

[Introduction] [Methodology] [Performing the Test] [Measurements] [Results] [Conclusions]
[Appendix 1: Configuration Details] [Appendix 2: Step-by-Step Description]

Conclusions

The results show that roughly 30 to 40% more users can log on to the platform with Microsoft Office 2003 as compared to a platform with OpenOffice.org 2.1, all using identical hardware and an identical terminal server configuration on Windows Server 2003 SP1. Even for terminal servers with Microsoft Office 2007, you can expect that the system resources are used roughly 20% more efficiently than is possible on a system with OpenOffice.org. This applies both for the 32-bit and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 when used as the primary platform.

Memory requirements of all three Office Suites on 64-bit Windows Server 2003 are increased by the factor 1.1 to 1.5 if compared to the 32-bit platform.

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