You can still run a lot of users on "modest" hardware. Dave Richards posts regularly about his terminal server work for Largo, Florida. 250 users running GNOME,

You can still run a lot of users on "modest" hardware. Dave Richards posts regularly about his terminal server work for Largo, Florida. 250 users running GNOME, firefox, libreoffice, etc. on one server with 64GB of RAM may not be up to 1989 standards, but it isn't shabby. http://davelargo.blogspot.com/2012/02/250-concurrent-users-tuning-and-citrix.html http://davelargo.blogspot.com/2012/02/250-concurrent-users-t...