[thinnews] NCD's ThinPATH Software Now Available to Federal Customer
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thinnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:49:02 -0500
NCD's ThinPATH Software Now Available to Federal Customers Through
Intelligent Decisions' SEWP III Contract
Tuesday March 4, 8:07 am ET
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030304/nytu063_1.html
PORTLAND, Ore., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Network Computing Devices,
Inc. ((NCD) (OTC Bulletin Board: NCDI.PK - News)), a leading producer of
thin-client solutions, today announced the availability of its ThinPATH
software to federal customers through Intelligent Decisions' (ID) SEWP III
contract.
SEWP is a Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) offering a wide range
of advanced technologies to all federal agencies (including the Department
of Defense) and their authorized contractors. Intelligent Decisions was the
only small business awarded two contracts from NASA for SEWP III in Class
10, Computer Support Devices, and Class 12, Security Systems and Tools.
NCD's ThinPATH Software and NC900s are approved products on the Class 10
contract. NASA estimates the maximum SEWP III contract value to be $4
billion over five years.
In order to streamline this acquisition process, Intelligent Decisions has
just launched the first federal contract vehicle that enables government
agencies to easily and quickly select and purchase advanced technology, such
as NCD's ThinPATH PC, ThinPATH Portal and ThinPATH Executive software.
NCD has been supplying thin-client solutions via the SEWP contract since its
inception in 1991 with X Terminals such as the NC900 Series. Now NCD will
offer its ThinPATH software suite, including ThinPATH PC and ThinPATH
Portal, which offer a unique approach to providing flexible desktop
management and control to PCs. Customers benefit from simplifying the
desktop, using existing or new PC hardware, reducing the cost of ownership
of their infrastructure and can increase the number of desktops they manage
without having to increase staff. All of these enhanced efficiencies and
cost-saving benefits can be realized immediately, an important consideration
in today's tough economic climate.
ThinPATH PC converts PCs into flexible, manageable thin-client desktops.
This solution transforms a PC into the ultimate thin-client device that can
support environments that need the locked-down desktop control of a thin
client while maintaining the flexibility of a PC for local application
support and I/O. Additionally this is a "future-proof" solution that
prepares organizations for future application demands because it is built on
standard PC architecture.
ThinPATH Portal is an application installed on a Windows 2000 server that
centrally manages thin-client PCs enabled with ThinPATH PC and other
selected thin-client devices. Single-point management control includes
automated software updates, group-managed configuration and connection
settings. ThinPATH Portal uses standard Internet technology to enable
operation across existing firewalls and network structures.
ThinPATH Executive is a bundled software package that allows remote desktop
mirroring and interaction, provides local I/O support such as printing and
audio in/out for thin clients and enables the use of local storage in a
thin-client environment. ThinPATH software can be procured immediately
through Intelligent Decisions' SEWP (Scientific and Engineering Workstation
Procurement) III contract.
In addition to NCD's software solutions, Intelligent Decisions will continue
to offer the NCD family of X Terminals. Available are the N916-WW, N948-WW,
N980-WW and the NCBridge software. Unique to the marketplace, the NC900
Business Network Computer combines the best of evolutionary and
revolutionary thin client technology to deliver a proven computing solution
at an outstanding price-to-performance ratio. When combined with NCBridge
software, the NC900 offers simultaneous windowed access to a local Netscape
Navigator browser, X11 clients, PC applications, Java and legacy
applications. Using the local ICA client, the NC900 can access Microsoft
Windows 2000 applications running Citrix MetaFrame software.
"In order to give customers what they need in today's economy, we are
providing solutions that greatly simplify the complexity of the desktop and
leverages the power of server-based computing," explained Frank Bernard,
director of NCD North America sales. "This will allow them to easily expand
their computing environment to meet increasing support demands and do it
with existing personnel." Companies will discover that this approach meets
their IT needs better and more cost-effectively than investing in
comprehensive PC management tools that require dedicated developer and
support staff, plus additional prerequisite systems that may be difficult to
install in a distributed system. This is the first step in a whole new way
to manage thin client and PC environments using web services technologies,
and NCD is very pleased to be making this important new solution available
today."
Pricing and Availability:
For more information about purchasing NCD products through the Intelligent
Decisions (ID) SEWP III contract, visit ID's special SEWP III web site,
www.sewp3.com or call toll free 866.803.SEWP (7397).
About Intelligent Decisions:
Founded in 1988, Intelligent Decisions (ID) provides a broad range of IT
hardware, software and service solutions to the federal government and
Fortune 1000 customers. ID also offers comprehensive professional service
capabilities including IT security, web site design and integration,
applications development, business intelligence and networking solutions. ID
is headquartered in Chantilly, VA and can be found at www.intelligent.net or
by calling toll-free 800-929-8331.
About NCD:
Founded in 1988, Network Computing Devices, Inc. (NCD) is a leading provider
of innovative products and technology for the thin client and Internet
appliance market. Based in the US, NCD, Inc., is a software-based product
and technology supplier for the worldwide Internet appliance market. The
company's offerings include its flagship Thinfrastructure family of
products, comprising software for the management of thin clients, as well
the NC900 Business Network Computer X-terminal. NCD Europe is a thin client
solutions vendor, offering a full solution set of thin client hardware,
management software and customer solutions services in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa. NCD focuses on the future of server-based computing as it
expands to encompass thin clients, PCs, PDAs and other mobile devices, and
offers its customers the knowledge; experience, solutions and services
necessary to make it all work together seamlessly. NCD can be reached on the
Internet at: www.ncd.com or by calling (800) 800-9599.
Contact:
Frank Bernard
Director, Sales & Marketing
NCD
512-328-4533
bernard@xxxxxxx
Terri Pond
Director, Marketing
Intelligent Decisions
703-803-8070
tpond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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