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Old 24-06-07, 01:28 PM
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Back to the mainframe terminal (sort of)
At my place of work, we're almost going full circle & returning to the mainframe terminals of the '60s.

Replacing some desktop PCs with virtual terminals. Basically, a screen, keyboard & mouse plugged into a small box thats just got a (i guess) a network card in it. Your PC (MS XP) session runs on a server. Cost of ownership, centralised software upgrades are the benifits, I guess.

Wonder how widespread this is? Guess it's the future in corporate land...

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At my place of work, we're almost going full circle & returning to the mainframe terminals of the '60s.

Replacing some desktop PCs with virtual terminals. Basically, a screen, keyboard & mouse plugged into a small box thats just got a (i guess) a network card in it. Your PC (MS XP) session runs on a server. Cost of ownership, centralised software upgrades are the benifits, I guess.

Wonder how widespread this is? Guess it's the future in corporate land...

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Thin clients aren't new, Citrix has been around for a long time now, I remember putting the first system in for Chase Manhattan back in '98. It's fine for some environments, all depend upon the type of apps you want to run, TCO can be difficult to calculate though.

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We had the Citrix thin client at BP for a while whilst I was there in about 2003. Found it completely naff on our system... Slow wasn't the word. Slooooooooooooooooooow was more like it!

I'm sure there are solutions that work well though.
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Yah, citrix at my work too.

Sun have a proprietary java based system that does similar too - you have these little boxes on each desk with a screen, keyboard and card reader. You put your card in and you get a login. Cool thing is that you can pull the card out while working, walk to another desk and plug back in - the new desktop picks up with the session where it was, midword in a document even.
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last firm I worked at had this remote desktop thingy.Terminal services it was called. basically a tiny box running CE that connected to the server at head office. sloooooooooooooooooooow wasn't the word and it was pants.

strangely the company installed most of the data centres for Chase manhattan JPMC/ chemical bank whatever they call themselves this month
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With citrix metaframe, Terminal services, an d a variety of other thin client application delivery solutions around, we are indeed coming full circle, and have been for about ten years now. It just makes sense to centralise everything from a maintenance, installation, security and version control perspective.
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