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Okay here they come...Momentum watchers are beginning to come out of the bushes with the "Ok, maybe its time has come" projection. We personally believe that the best thing to ever happen to the thin-client market is Vista. Feb2008 will be one of the first demarcation lines in the battle (ie I can't buy XP Pro OEM anymore...).
Anyway, nice article on NY Times blog (Wyse also believes Vista is major catalyst...).
A few weeks ago Intel invested $200M in VMware and bought themselves a seat on the board. Now today Cisco joins in and adds another $150M (with seat). Deal comes as VMware is preparing for a closely watched initial public offering. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., the world's largest maker of corporate data-storage equipment, plans to spin off 10% of VMware, in an IPO.
Well, it took about 2 hours before Wyse delivered a response to the news of HP buying Neoware. That was almost too fast i think but certainly a quick response was ideal. Nice to see them moving quick.
HP makes a move in the thinclient market by acquiring two companies. Neoware in PA was $214M and they have a significant share of the hardware thin-client market. That's got to be interesting to Wyse.
The quantity 1500 Wyse thin clients will integrate into an RFIdeas authentication solution, a client-side sonar device that recognizes a badge swipe and seamlessly re-authenticates the user as they move to different workstations without compromising mission critical security policies.
BOSaNOVA integrattes Matrox Epic multi-display hardware into thei XPe Thin Clients. Basically you can display much more information across the multiple displays (ie larger virtual desktop).
 BOSaNOVA, Inc. announced a new 10" Wireless Thin Client Tablet. AMD 800 processor and 1024x768. |
Appears Intel has had a change of heart and will now join the board of OLPC and contribute funding. That's a good thing and definitely nicer than the prior stance it had which seemed to put corporate profit ahead of public good. The OLPC machine is a technological miracle in how it manages power and all it takes is one visit to backcountry of Nigeria to understand significance of power (or absence of).
 Low-cost network computing specialist Devon IT has added a PCMCIA slot and "3G aircard" support to its thin client notebook. Available with the company's own Linux-based "DeTOS" embedded operating system, the SafeBook runs applications from remote servers, via Citrix ICA, Microsoft RDP, or VNC. Priced from $600 |
In the coming years, VMware will continue to dominate the market for x86 server virtualization, but it face new challenges from Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 and XenSource, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
 First ever mini-ITX direct from Intel comes with 1.33 Mhz Celeron in 17cm x 17cm form factor. Uses power about like a VIA and cost is $80. Now that's a thin client... |
