Re: st: Stata on a terminal server

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

The institutional Stata you run remotely should be set up to be able
to see extra ado files on your computer. If not, the -adopath- command
should be the way to fix that. So whatever user-written stuff you have
installed should be OK.

But I think comment on how well it will work depends on knowing more
precisely how it would work. It depends on whether the "internet
connection" would be equivalent to just being a computer with a
connection to a local server. If so, "very well" is a likely answer.
Customisation would be matter of running your own do-file once you
have opened up Stata. On this, it is better to open up a dialogue with
Stata tech-support or to get your contact person to do that.

On why STATA is really Stata, see several other very recent posts.

Nick

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM, David Merriman <dmerrim@gmail.com> wrote:
> I own stata/se 10 on two computers and stata/se 11 on a third computer
> (two offices and a home based office.)
> I would like to get stata/se 12.  My computer guru tells me:
>
> "We have volume license agreements for STATA...STATA/SE 12 can be purchased
> for $90 per person (not per install or per concurrent user) for expiration
> on 5/24/2013 from [our university webstore]....
> The STATA sold on WebStore uses a connection to our terminal server to run
> the software rather than it being installed locally on the users computer."
>
> This sounds like a pretty good deal but....my question is how well will it
> work?  I understand that I would need an internet connection to run it--that is
> usually not a problem but I can imagine other problems.
> In particular because I download a fair number of user written ado files
> and do other things to customize STATA for my use I am wondering if this
> system will work smoothly for me.  Advice would be appreciated.

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