Brian Madden, he's a very vocal observer, analyst, critic and commentator on virtualization - and he's had a fair amount to say about thin clients in the past. Please see his September 16, 2009 blog below regarding the Wyse announcements and demos at VMWorld recently.
Cool vendor demos and conversations from the VMworld 2009 exhibit hall:
Wyse
I have a new mini crush on this company. I mean Wyse just had so much cool stuff at VMworld. They were showing the C-class terminals that are tiny and cheap with the dedicated streaming media processors. They had the new P-class devices which include the hardware PC-over-IP chips. They had their PocketCloud RDP / VMware View iPhone client. They introduced us to a new thing called Project Borg which has something to do with them taking over the world, one legacy PC at a time. (Seriously, Borg turns a PC into a Wyse managed thin client.) Oh, and they also had VDA, that software for extending RDP and ICA over long-haul WAN links.
So yeah, really cool stuff. (I think there’s a joke in here somewhere. Like “How do you make a thin client company sexy?” “Get them to stop focusing on thin clients!” :)
But damn they’re hot.
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Brian Madden
September 16, 2009
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