Get thin client benefits for free with openThinClient
Thin clients reduce hardware costs, offer added security by stripping away storage options, and ease management tasks by storing all configurations on a centralized server. Citrix provides a good solution and is a dominant player in this arena with Citrix Presentation server, but that comes at a price -- about $1,000 for five concurrent connections and about $200 to $300 for each additional concurrent client connection. However, taking the thin client route does not have to be that expensive: openThinClient is an open source thin client server that is absolutely free.
GPLv2-licensed openThinClient, based on an Ubuntu server operating system, uses server components and a management system written in Java for midsize to large organizations. It requires only a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) boot-capable diskless machine on which to run, so it can run on older computers too underpowered to run the latest desktop operating systems.
OpenThinClient uses its own Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository or an external Active Directory (AD) directory service to store client configurations, and since its server and management components are Java-based, it runs on any platform that supports Java Standard Edition 6 version 1.6 or later.
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