Re: Thin clients

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

A dumb terminal with a browser and the ability to run applications.
Best of all worlds.

On 9/12/07, Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm interested in this also. An article in a Higher Ed publication I recently read about a school that switched to thin clients who was able to move 75% of their 200 faculty/staff office PCs to thin clients and they switched 50% of their student lab PCs to thin clients. They had them connecting to data center Windows servers to run what Windows apps then needed to run, everything else was browser based. I think it was on about a 20 (clients) to 1 (server) ratio but I am not sure on that stat. (remember that 57% of all statistics are made up) They also said they could then go from a 3 year replacement plan for a PC to about a 6 year replacement plan for thin clients (or so they predict since they are only in year 2 of this new plan).  IT'S THE RETURN OF THE DUMB TERMINAL!!!!!! (or something close)
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> You guys that are using this thin client stuff need to write some articles!
> I think this is great stuff!
>
> What I would cover in such an article is simply your initial need, R&D to
> find a solution, implementation, and then a history of it's success.  If you
> don't want to do it for a trade rag you could at least do it for
> imho.midrange.com.
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> Are there any articles out there already that I just haven't taken the time
> to notice?
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
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> iGels are a very nice thin client also (we moved to them about 3 years ago).
> iGel was able to provide a flash card that could be installed into the old
> IBM thin clients that would run the iGel thin client image... 3 years later
> the majority of our thin clients are still the old IBMs (almost 10 years old
> at this point?) that run the iGel image from the flash card.
> Pretty slick stuff.  Good mgt software also for administering them.
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> I've been working with Neoware thin clients for a few years now.
> They're a pretty good investment. But...I also remembering IBM dropping
> their thin client line and catching us off guard. HP buying Neoware does a
> lot for strengthening the thin client value proposition.
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> On 9/12/07, Raul A. Jager W. <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If this article is real, the idea of developing web applications in
> > AS/400 has good future.....
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/technology/techspecial/12thin.html?th&emc=
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