Welcome!

iPhone Authors: Maureen O'Gara, Adam Blum, David Weinberger, John Funnell, Jeff Browning

Related Topics: Eclipse, Linux, Open Source, Virtualization

Eclipse: Article

Novell To Try Its Hand at Powering Thin Clients

Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
By Linux News Desk
Article Rating:
March 27, 2007 11:15 PM EDT
Reads:
 9,672
Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation toolkit that resellers can configure, sort of like a poor man's Citrix or Sun Ray.

A California school district put its 2,000 machines on the stuff, saying its hardware costs were cut 75% and its software costs by 95%.

Novell claims to be the only enterprise Linux that can easily configure and manage desktop images.

Apparently the thin client configuration is something SUSE users came up with and Novell is formalizing the adaptation and will be contributing the toolkit. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client will be available sometime later this year.

Novell is targeting call centers, plant floor workstations and other fixed function and transactional settings. IDC says the biggest obstacle is skills.

Images can be deployed on re-purposed PCs, new PCs or real thin clients like Wyse's.

Published March 27, 2007 – Reads 9,672
Copyright © 2007 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Linux News Desk

SYS-CON's Linux News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the Linux world and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for IT/IS managers and other business decision-makers.

Comments (1) View Comments

Share your thoughts on this story.

Add your comment
You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.

Most Recent Comments
Linux News 03/27/07 06:51:49 PM EDT

Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation toolkit that resellers can configure, sort of like a poor man's Citrix or Sun Ray. A California school district put its 2,000 machines on the stuff, saying its hardware costs were cut 75% and its software costs by 95%. Novell claims to be the only enterprise Linux that can easily configure and manage desktop images.