[THIN] Re: Recommendations for Thin client devices

We don't have a need to hook anything up to our terminals other than
keyboard, mouse, and NIC. We use Wyse 1200LE and now the S10. The config
and firmware is all grabbed from FTP, whose address is issued via DHCP.
Out of the box we plug them in and they require no configuration at all.
We can have them drop shipped to any of our offices and the staff can
just plug it in and start working. Pretty slick. 

We only ever update firmware, which simply requires dropping it into the
FTP location and the terminals grab it on next reboot.

I recommend getting evals of all models you want to try before
purchasing.

Good luck, 

Roger Riggins   
Network Administrator 
Lutheran Services in Iowa 
w: 319.859.3543 
c: 319.290.5687 
http://www.lsiowa.org 
 
 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Kosht
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:46 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Recommendations for Thin client devices

Although I have been using Citrix (1.8 Metaframe to PS 4.0) and MS
Terminal services (NT 4.0 TSE  to Win2k3 R2)  for about 7-8 yrs now,
I have only used them in conjunction with "real" PC's.  Seeing on the
horizon yet another painful desktop OS upgrade to Vista, I see a
chance to perhaps get off the hamster wheel.
I would like to test a small (initially 2-3 then up to 25 clients)
pilot of these devices. My only exposure to these was a lone Wyse
3360SE (Windows CE 3.0 I think) device many years ago. At that time I
found it slow and limited (graphics resolution) but usable.  I don't
think they would ever replace all the PC's (laptops and GIS editing
stations in particular) in my case, but the vast majority of users use
MS Office, E-mail (groupwise) and a handful of apps (most already
available as published applications on our Citrix farm).

I would be interested in hearing real world opinions of likes/dislikes
in these devices. Be sure to include:
_Make/Model
_OS (CE, XPe, Linux, others?) Do you find one of these superior to
another? Why?

Thanks in advance.
-Matt
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