We use what we call 'netstations' here at Washburn University They have their ups and downs. Part of our problem is that students have reached a point in time where they hate the current setup, and different departments are furnishing their own labs with PCs. The current setup is getting too old to handle the applications we're using. They still have Word Perfect 8, no Open Office etc. The units are old and overdue for an upgrade, but now we're in a battle pc vs. thin client. Sure, we can use WinDD to get to a Windows NT environment, but students don't have that access.
We are slowly moving to a PC environment, but that may change in the near future. We've been testing some thin clients called NeoWare clients. The main advantage here, is that they are new thin clients, and not clunky, 8-24 MB RAM, no hard disk, thin clients we are using. All our stuff runs AIX with generic CDE, but we're moving to RH Enterprise in Fall 2005 with the new NeoWare clients. I believe we were given the chance to test one out. The main advantage here is that the OS is loaded from the hard disk it has built in and it has a video card that can handle flash animation (and supports better browsers). Most of our students use these for browsing the web. Wireless access has become fairly big here too, partly due to the limitations in the hardware we currently have. I do not have the main server specs to share, I'm not a part of that dept.
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We use what we call 'netstations' here at Washburn University They have their ups and downs. Part of our problem is that students have reached a point in time where they hate the current setup, and different departments are furnishing their own labs with PCs. The current setup is getting too old to handle the applications we're using. They still have Word Perfect 8, no Open Office etc. The units are old and overdue for an upgrade, but now we're in a battle pc vs. thin client. Sure, we can use WinDD to get to a Windows NT environment, but students don't have that access.
We are slowly moving to a PC environment, but that may change in the near future. We've been testing some thin clients called NeoWare clients. The main advantage here, is that they are new thin clients, and not clunky, 8-24 MB RAM, no hard disk, thin clients we are using. All our stuff runs AIX with generic CDE, but we're moving to RH Enterprise in Fall 2005 with the new NeoWare clients. I believe we were given the chance to test one out. The main advantage here is that the OS is loaded from the hard disk it has built in and it has a video card that can handle flash animation (and supports better browsers). Most of our students use these for browsing the web. Wireless access has become fairly big here too, partly due to the limitations in the hardware we currently have. I do not have the main server specs to share, I'm not a part of that dept.
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