[seul-edu] thin clients using Linux in the classroom?

[Dennis Daniels <ddaniels@magic.fr>]

Hello
I've been visting campuses around San Diego lately and found that at 
some sites they are using thin clients in the classroom and in the 
libraries. They are using a product called citrix 
http://www.citrix.com/. What's interesting is that the schools are 
buying the services from other schools, in the case of at least one 
school in San Diego, Helixcharter.net, they are buying the services from 
Lemon Grove, which is a fairly small school district. The clients have 
MS products running on them. But the Citrix site says it'll run on Unix 
as well.

To outfit a room with 30 thin client stations cost about 12K$. That's 
not including the service fees for maintaining the server and access to 
the databases. Ostensibly, the costs would be much lower if the package 
did not include proprietary licensed apps.

I point this out because, first I'm not aware of an Open Source, thin 
client server product. And secondly, if there is one, does anyone know 
if it's being used in a public school environment?

Anyone heard of a linux server for thin clients in the Open Source world?
thanks
Dennis