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Hi Everyone,

I need to investigate a thin client solution for my company.
We are looking at 20 clients at the moment but it will probably go up to 600 in future.

What are the top 3 technologies on the market at the moment?
so far i think, citrix and vmware....?

also,what do you guys recommend?

Thanks,?Bar1
 
Hi There,
Not sure that you are using the right terminology.
Thin client usually refers to the amount ( or not if thin) processing power that you have to have to run an application.
What is the application the your company wants?
A browser based solution is a thin client for example. I think you need to expand on the application that you want and then look at what interface they work with.

Regards

TIm
 
Tim the Techxpert said:
Hi There,
Not sure that you are using the right terminology.
Thin client usually refers to the amount ( or not if thin) processing power that you have to have to run an application.
What is the application the your company wants?
A browser based solution is a thin client for example. I think you need to expand on the application that you want and then look at what interface they work with.

Regards

TIm
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We want to be able to publish, certain applications for the terminals (thin clients).
i think it's also called ,virtual desktops.
 
What kind of apps, for what kind of purpose(s)? Also, I'm not too sure of the relevance of this now, but with what kind of responsiveness? Ditto about the question of local (to the client/station) media - think local flash drives.
 
bdt said:
What kind of apps, for what kind of purpose(s)? Also, I'm not too sure of the relevance of this now, but with what kind of responsiveness? Ditto about the question of local (to the client/station) media - think local flash drives.
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it will be mostly web based applications, internet, and office
 
The guys were very quick to buy the terminals.
I need to investigate the software and hardware requirements, it must be reasonably fast.
 
bdt said:
That you mean you already have terminals?
See above for relevance: if you're already sitting with kit, it skews/redirects/limits the directions in which you can go/look.
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If necessary we will replace the kit....
 
If you are talking providing an MS desktop to your clients, as far as I have been able to determine so far, a Terminal Server farm based on Windows RDS would be your cheapest bet from an MS licensing point of view (but there may be some good deal for licensing with Citrix or VMware that I haven't cottoned onto yet.) I get the impression that the value proposition for Citrix and VMware is more based around saving on the ongoing maintenance costs.

it will be mostly web based applications, internet, and office
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If this is the case and all of you Office requirements can be taken care of with Office 365, Libre Office or Google Apps then a number of other possibilities open up for you.
 
We use Citrix to publish a .NET Windows app with SQL backend to 200+ users over the Internet using Citrix. You get some pretty cool functionality. We originally used RemoteApp but found that it didn't handle drops in connection/packet loss as elegantly as Citrix did.
 
paddy_za said:
We use Citrix to publish a .NET Windows app with SQL backend to 200+ users over the Internet using Citrix. You get some pretty cool functionality. We originally used RemoteApp but found that it didn't handle drops in connection/packet loss as elegantly as Citrix did.
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Thanks paddy.

does anyone have any experience with VMware Horizon View?
 
If anyone have a link where i can compare the products it will be super useful....
 
I see server 2012 , have a virtual desktop feature.
I
 
bdt said:
Related question: is it strictly necessary that you work in an MS (sorry for the misspell, on the forum it's M$) environment ..at least from a UI perspective? As an example, the already-mentioned Horizon View offers OS/UI agnosticism.
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I am leading toward VM
 
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