[THIN] Re: thin client deployment in a school

Yeah I have read about them but not seen it in action.  If Microsoft ever gets Calista out the door things will change and we will have even more options when it comes to thin clients hopefully. It has been over a year since they bought them.
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jim,

 

Agreed.

 

I was thinking of PVS for the PC blades and VDI VMs if VDI is considered viable. The main idea of considering VDI in the mix was to keep the cost down since VDI should be able to take care of at least part of the application mix.

 

The image management that comes with the HP thin clients (Altiris) is quite okay for that number of machines.

 

If I wasn't leaning towards HP I'd also have to admit that the Teradici solution has thin clients that are so simple that what you save at the thin client end you could spend on more PC blades end to get a really nice solution.

 

By the way Quest vWorkspace supports the RGS protocol as well as our enhanced RDP. With RGS we can do 3D graphics with GPU support right now :-)

 

regards,

 

Rick

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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <jkenzig@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree in this case Citrix Provisioning Server may be the way to go because you can stream an entire OS down to the workstation.  There are many schools currently doing this. However a thin client is not the best choice for PVS unless it has enough HD storage space for whatever OS you are sending to it. 

  
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Puneet Goel <g.puneet@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have to deply thin client in a school for around 150 students. They
will be working on advanced IT apps like 3D Max, Maya, Autocad,
Photoshop, Oracle, SQL.

can anyone guide me in finalizing server requirements for them.

thanks