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Thin clients ride Linux trend
News Thin is in again, at least for a spell, as hardware makers use Linux to sell companies on the idea of forsaking full-fledged PCs in favour of stripped-down "thin clients. In the 90s, Microsoft foes Oracle and Sun Microsystems advocated, with little...
[August 6, 2004, 12:05]
Collaboration Software Clients: Email, IM, Presence, RSS & Collaborative Workspaces Should Be Integrated for Business Communication
White Papers Of the plethora of separate collaboration clients types on the market today - email, IM, presence, RSS and collaborative workspaces - no single client is sufficient for the communication and collaboration needs of information professionals.
[February 16, 2005, 2:00]
Thin Clients: Selecting the Right Desktop Strategy for Your Organization
White Papers Thin clients can offer significant advantages when properly deployed. Furthermore, thin clients can offer "hidden" benefits, such as allowing IT departments the ability to codify and enforce IT best practices and liberate their staff to work on...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
lack of support for common email clients
Member Review Lack of support for common email clients is a major drawback. The documentation is sparse -- presumably to force clients to subscribe to their high-cost support packages. Not even OE seems to be supported.
[March 26, 2004, 14:29]
SARES-REGIS Group Delivers Self Service and New Options to Employees and Clients
White Papers The challenge was to maintain the highest level of security for employees and clients and give employees direct access to their information. SARES-REGIS Group is one of the largest, most diversified real estate companies in the western United States.
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
Growing Internet Service Provider (ISP) Is Able to Boast Their Usage of HP ProLiant Servers to Gain New Clients
White Papers To better serve their clients, the company decided to upgrade their data center from a mix of white boxes built from scratch to HP ProLiant servers. The company implemented 52 HP ProLiant servers within their growing 1,000 square foot data center...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Thin clients credited with big CO2 emission cuts
News The use of thin clients can play a substantial part in reducing European businesses' CO2 emissions, according to research. Thin clients have already reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,521 tonnes over the last four years — the equivalent of 504...
[March 27, 2008, 15:36]
Switch to Thin Clients Boosts Builder's Productivity
White Papers Privately held construction and building group BGC has ousted half of its fleet of Wintel PCs in favour of thin clients running Solaris in order to "Go forward" with service delivery to the company's employees.
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Orbicon A/S: Consultancy Firm Strengthens Competitive Advantage by Improving Communication With Clients
White Papers These companies used their financial systems differently, so there was a need to establish a single, shared information system for the entire company, supplying coordinated information to both the management and employees as well as optimising the...
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
Egg says rich clients are the future online
Talkback High value web clients can already be given priority access to web delivered applications without the requirement for application re-writes or operating systems migration. Egg should investigate the web Visitor Managment solutions from Catchfire...
[January 30, 2004, 10:56]
Leading Provider of Executive Business Suites Protects Clients With Trend Micro Network VirusWall 1200
White Papers Because it provides open Internet connectivity for clients using their own computers, Office Suites PLUS had difficulty enforcing individual computing security measures. Office Suites PLUS, based in Lexington, KY, has become a leader in the office...
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Europcar slims IT costs with Linux thin clients
News Car hire firm Europcar International has migrated thousands of PCs across Europe from Windows fat clients to Linux thin clients, lowering both its hardware and maintenance costs. The car hire firm has saved on hardware and maintenance costs by...
[November 30, 2004, 10:50]
Simplifying Paperwork Frees Foster Care Staff to Put Clients First
White Papers ASCI) staff members spend handling paperwork and other routine tasks, the more time they can devote to helping their clients. The fewer hours A Second Chance Inc. Until recently, agency employees were still writing most of their reports by hand and...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Prince Charles backs 'green' thin clients
News Prince Charles, it seems, has discovered thin clients, and finds the notion they can help cut energy costs "mind boggling". Speaking at the Second May Day Business Summit on Climate Change on Monday, HRH referred to the example of a recruitment...
[May 6, 2008, 17:40]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News Fat clients or thin clients? Gates or Ellison? Microsoft or Oracle? Whose vision of the future of the software industry sounds more convincing? Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison announced the Oracle 9i Application Server product and a...
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
NCD to tap Intel chips for 'lean' clients
News The Intel agreement comes three months after the chip giant announced it had developed a set of specifications for the creation of lean clients. Network Computing Devices (NCD) said it will develop so-called "lean client" systems, which are scaled...
[March 10, 1998, 11:28]
IDC White Paper - The Tangible Benefits of Blade Clients
White Papers Blade clients are rack mounted boards that contain a full PC, including processor, memory, hard drive, graphics, and operating system. IDC interviewed 10 customers using blade solutions for their desktop computing at the end of 2004 and asked...
[February 14, 2005, 23:00]
Accounting Firm Enhances Service for Small Business Clients
White Papers Because many of the firm's small business clients found it difficult to review QuickBooks files and reports, Cable Financial had to fax or mail printed reports to them. Cable Financial tested the beta version of Microsoft Office Small Business...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
How Information Builders Gives Clients the Skills Needed to Achieve ROI
White Papers In today's tight technology market, where the need to demonstrate ROI is a prerequisite of every sale, smart solutions providers are assuming greater responsibility for the skills of their clients' employees.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Combining AJAX and WSRF for Web-Browser Based Grid Clients
White Papers Accessing WS-Resources (according to WSRF) in a manner compatible with the REST principles, using a Web browser, makes it possible to provide a light-weight, portable client for interacting with scientific simulations in distributed computing...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
