HP used to sell something similar, believe they called it an X-windows terminal server. It provided an x-client interface to the HP3000 and was nothing more than a dumb terminal
with a small box attachment to house the x-client hardware. As a product it bombed.


Paul

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:44:42 -0400, Mark Wonsil wrote:

>> Users sit at workstations - each with a screen, a keyboard
>> and some local memory - sign in with passwords and gain
>> access to both processing power and individual work files.
>> Each worker gets a PC blade, but not always the same one.
>> The processing resources are allocated by Hewlett-Packard's
>> OpenView software, developed over years and used for
>> managing workloads in corporate data centers.
>
>OK, they sit at "workstations".  Hmm.  Are these also PCs that need to be
>maintained or are they Windows Terminal Servers.  If they're PCs, I would
>think that having two PCs to maintain would be more expensive, if not, is
>the cost of the Windows terminal included in this savings?  It sounds easier
>to maintain.  I would think you would have to "nail" some users with
>specific software to certain blades (Cad users for example).  I wonder about
>software that requires a security dongle.  I also assume that all scanners
>and printers need to be networked too.  Finally, I wonder how the blade
>approach would compare to Citrix, Windows Terminal Services or even a VMWare
>approach.
>
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