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[school-discuss] From the News- PC Card Converts Old Desktop Computer into Thin Client




Thin-client vendor Igel is offering a $99 PC card that converts old desktop PCs into (Linux) thin clients. It's a technology that Daimler Chrysler recently decided to use to extend the life of its aging fleet of Dell desktop PCs. Igel rival Wyse says the recession and other factors such as virtualization, cloud computing and green IT have recently spurred more rapid adoption of thin-client technology.

As IT organizations look to extend the lifetimes of their current fleets of PCs, some may soon be considering a new option—converting the actual desktop computer into a Linux thin client.

That’s what Daimler Chrysler, the former owner of troubled U.S. automaker Chrysler Holdings, was looking to do when it recently converted 1,000 of its Dell 
PCs into Linux thin clients using a PC card available from Igel Technology, a longtime thin-client vendor based in Germany.
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read the whole story here...  It is now fully mainstream and reported as used for education as well.

http://bit.ly/qY7wsR
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