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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (22311)	11/5/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

jhg, not up on CTXS but in any case each seat must purchase some form of Windows license; there is no getting around that as far as I can see. Before Sun went thin client they had a quasi thin client called AutoClient (anyone remember that?). Each wks had it's root mounted from a server and iff it had a local disk it cached the remote root (write through cache). This actually worked pretty well but was troublesome enough that I think most people figured why not just install the OS image on the box if it's capable of running the full OS. Reviving/fixing AutoClient may be the missing link to the thin client strategy by offering a migration path from full desktop to thin client. Just in IMHO of course. James