Dan Stromberg wrote:
I have precisely 0 experience with them, but it appears that they run
Wince or XPe, which means that no matter what OS you run on them,
microsoft still profits from the deal. The get money from an OS sale,
and they get to jack their installed-based numbers - which contributes
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, John McCreesh wrote:
It's not a perfect world, but if you can suggest an alternative in the UK,
I'll go for it.
I've got some Thintune XS boxes:
http://www.thintune.com/v/international/products/thintunexs.html
bought from:
http://www.transtec.co.uk/
They come with all kinds of
Dan Stromberg wrote:
I have precisely 0 experience with them, but it appears that they run
Wince or XPe, which means that no matter what OS you run on them,
microsoft still profits from the deal. The get money from an OS sale,
and they get to jack their installed-based numbers - which contributes
Interesting!
What sort of quantities are we talking about to get that kind of deal?
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:00 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Excellent point.
>
> We were selling the ST320's at DisklessWorkstations.Com for quite a
> while, but we worked out an agreement with the mfg t
Dan,
Excellent point.
We were selling the ST320's at DisklessWorkstations.Com for quite a
while, but we worked out an agreement with the mfg to get them without
WinCE, so M$ didn't get any cut of the deal.
In fact, that's a major point for us, when we talk with hardware
companies. We even got H
I have precisely 0 experience with them, but it appears that they run
Wince or XPe, which means that no matter what OS you run on them,
microsoft still profits from the deal. The get money from an OS sale,
and they get to jack their installed-based numbers - which contributes
to commercial develo
Has anyone any experience of using these with LTSP - e.g. can you PXE
boot them or do you need to get them flashed? There's a reseller in the
UK selling them for UKP175, which seems a reasonable price for a thin
client.
Thanks - John
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