I love the new press. Take an NC, remove Java, make it fully dependent upon the mainstream O/S, and you get the best thing since sliced bread! It seems with WBTs, we have finally found thin clients that will sell.
Thin Clients, Robust Servers, Husky Nets:
zdnet.com
"IBM and Sun Microsystems chose not to participate" ...
Wyse WBTs w/ Citrix Winframe: "Even with 20 clients accessing the dual 200-MHz Pentium Pro test server, our Windows terminals simultaneously gave us database-application performance approaching that of a 133-MHz Pentium PC." ...
"On our tests, we found very low network-utilization rates on the LAN connecting the Windows terminals and the shared CPU server. With 30 very busy clients, we saw peak network-utilization rates below 10 percent. Using the same database application with 28 PCs on a LAN, we saw utilization rates between the PCs and database server peak at over 80 percent and average at 30 percent. In the Windows terminal system, the utilization rate on a 10-Mbps link between the Citrix WinFrame server and the database server peaked as high as 83 percent, although 17 percent was the average. We conclude that you can comfortably install as many as 75 to 100 Windows terminals on a flat, unsegmented 10-Mbps network." ...
"Is a shared CPU system using Windows terminals and WinFrame less expensive to buy and own than a similar network of PCs? Generally speaking, the answer is yes and the benefit increases with the number of terminals" |
