Tommy, It sounds to me like you consider "true" thin clients to only be expensive proprietary hardware solutions. I think that this is a mistake. For the same reason that your proprietary WinTerm boxes are now useless under a new operating environment, your Neoware boxes will soon be unable to adapt to your ever-changing network. What's wrong with PCs? Nothing says that PCs have to boot from a slow, clunky, failure-prone floppy. The only thing you need are some network-bootable NICs in some vanilla PCs and there's the cheapest, most versatile, most upgradeable *true* thin client you can find. Just because it doesn't have the chic form factor, doesn't make it any "fatter" on cost or performance...
The open PC architecture is your friend. Every component is replaceable. Video not the best? Buy 40+ video cards at $40 each instead of 40+ new thin clients at $400 each. Just like proprietary software, proprietary hardware can only limit you and lock you into a solution. Jason PS: Please, no HTML email to the list. > From: Tommy Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:37:55 -0400 > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] True thin clients in biz environment? > > Hi, > > I have recently decided to replace our current 40+ user network with LTSP. > We are using Citrix, Exchange, and Winnt 4.0 TSE. However, it order to > accomplish this, I need to find a thin client that I can make boot to the > LTSP, otherwise we are stuck in M$ land. Most of our existing thin clients > are old WYSE WinTerms that I hope to replace with a new product line. I > have been looking at Neoware's (www.neoware.com <http://www.neoware.com/> ) > Capio 508, but have been unable to get it to go. My question is this: > > Are any of you currently in an organization that is utilizing LTSP? If so, > what are you using for thin clients? How are you accomplishing your setup? > > Using PCs that boot to the floppy is not an option. We must purchase the > true diskless (yet still have the option to add drives at will) thin client > hardware. Thanks in advance. > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
