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Dell To Acquire Wyse
New submitter alancronin writes "Computer and IT giant Dell said today it will acquire privately held Wyse Technology, a company that specializes in what it calls 'cloud client computing.'"
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What an idea to acquire such a terminally dumb company.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
Maybe Dell can finally offer an affordable thinclient. I am a big fan of their FX100, but it is priced out of range. By the time you license it and plug it in, it costs as much as a small form factor desktop. Not exactly the value customers are looking at with thin clients.
Lately we've been using PanoLogic Zero Clients. They are basically glorified network cards in a cube. No RAM, Processor, or other overhead that is prevalent in traditional ThinCleints. They are inexpensive and have a good management tool. Its inevitable that someone buys them out at some point.
...call it what it is: Thin Client. Wyse offers pretty good range of thin clients, from Windows embedded to Linux with built in ICA client. We ended up going with HP, since Wyse's equivalent was pricier
That was the latter years. The old ones were beyond awesome. A good rule of thumb for wyse terms was if you could not flash it, it was old enough to be fantastic, and if you could, its a turd. I have an old one on my desk for embedded work... Hey I've got the space, can always use another screen, etc. Kinda sucks for cut and paste, but perfect for watching logs and boot messages scroll by...
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Wyse is a bit of a relic. What next? Zenith Data Systems? Kaypro?
I'd like Altair to make a tablet. No more of this glass sheet crap, give me about 50 toggle switches and blinking lights.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
From TFA: "The company has more than 180 patents, both issued and pending, covering its solutions, software and differentiated intellectual property."
Yeah I did a LOT of installs from the Mid '80s on using mostly Wyse 50 or 60 terminals hanging off SCO boxes ( back when SCO was a real company not a lawsuit factory) And I was supporting software running on old SCO boxes 20 years later that still only ran nicely with Wyse 60 emulation instead of the default VT100 that so much terminal software assumed everything liked. I think it was in the mid-90's that I started replacing the WY60 terminals with emulators as it ended up being cheaper to run that over TCP/IP instead of hanging a terminal off a multi-port serial card. But for a long time one of my disaster backup plans had a couple locations stocked with the old terminals in case a hurricane took out our main office. Never used any of the newer line of terminals so can't say how good or bad they were but the old Wyse terminals worked great for a LONG time....
Just think of all the Slashdot jokes that could have been...
That doesn't mean we can't still make Wang jokes.
Q: Who was the first female computer programmer?
A: Eve - she had an Apple in one hand, and a Wang in the other.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
You don't think this was a wyse decision?
Dell me about it!
Thin clients are not for the end user they are for the administrators and the people who spend the money.
You will almost always be better off if you have a full speed desktop at your beck and call vs. a Thin Client... However those clients can stay current much longer and at the cost of a beefy server so Admins don't have to do desktop fixes and you don't need to upgrade every system every 3 years.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Suzie in Records doesn't need performance, and she doesn't need a USB pot to plug her iPod into, or a hard drive on which to install Weatherbug, or an Application Data folder in which to foothold a rootkit. She needs a fucking terminal. Why run around in circles supporting PCs with Windows and all the necessary infrastructure needed to dick with things that have nothing to do with the business. Use an application server, a terminal (thin-client), and walk away.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Because 64 bits ought to be enough for anybody!