WYSE Terminals

Cotta

Morning All,

The company I work for is changing the current desktops to WYSE terminals in a move to upgrade the office.

I'm unfamiliar with WYSE technology but I've done a little research and from what I can understand the units are much smaller than regular desktop terminals and I believe the way these access applications is much more efficient.

Am I on the right track with my thinking or can someone give be a better oversight on them?

Thanks.

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1. in the beginning, god created computers to make life simpler, save businesses money, and to carry out boring tasks so humans could enjoy much free time. There were expensive mainframes that did much and dumb terminals that did little.

2. then god made pc's to do the work, and file servers to store the work, making mainframes and terminal manufacturers largely redundant, but creating much work for mouse changers

3. then god made salespeople, and brought in new management consultants and accountants with bright ideas on how to save money on mouse changers, and simplify things by using something in between 1 and 2, called 1.5 or a thin client, which is a slighty smarter terminal, and slighly dumber mainframe/server

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life never got simpler, businesses spent loads of money employing humans to use computers to do pointless things that didn't really need doing in the first place.

S0litaire

Basicaly they are low power pc's used in a Citrix networks.

The Citrix server does all the hard work of running the OS andthe programs for multiple users.

The "thin clients" are used like a "remote desktop" where you use this terminal to log into the Citrix server and access your work and programs.

it's seen as a cost cutting exorcise by Managements around the world

They think:
Why give everyone a powerful relatively expensive desktop to do their work when we can give them a very slow cheap desktop and everyone accessing a very big expensive, but usually over worked and constantly slow, "Server" which if it breaks down everyone is stuck twiddling their thumbs and can't work...


"ThinNet" clients are only ever useful where you don't mind downtime (think internet access at a library or wifi cafe) or don't need lots of CPU usage (i.e daily work!!) done and want something easy to maintain (everything is on one big server so you don't need to send out IT guys to update every PC when ever their is a software update)

Cotta

Citrix is a server used by businesses?

S0litaire

Citrix is a suite of programs used mainly by business.

http://www.citrix.com/

It lets a single powerful PC to create a lot of virtual "desktops" that users can log into and access.

The Citrix server does all the hard work of running the users OS and programs so they only needs a very slow low power weak PC to interact with the "virtual Desktop"

So wherever they are in the world, when they connect to their companies Citrix server get their own desktop.

Cotta

Brilliant I think I have it now, so basically a WYSE is an empty system that feeds off whatever applications are on the server?

One final point, you mentioned Citrix being a "suite of programs" does this mean it can contain MS office and whatever other applications the business requires?

S0litaire

It's not a suite of programs like "MS Office"

But more like a set of Server software that do different things. Some only authenticate users and connections, others manage the data in the background while others handle the users "Virtual Desktops"

You still need to provide an OS (and the programs that will run on the OS) for the user!! The Citrix server handles how the user interacts with the installed OS and programs.

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the citrix server can have programs like office installed for the user to use, the point of it is to avoid local application installs on every machine.

Cotta

S0litaire wrote: »

It's not a suite of programs like "MS Office"

But more like a set of Server software that do different things. Some only authenticate users and connections, others manage the data in the background while others handle the users "Virtual Desktops"

You still need to provide an OS (and the programs that will run on the OS) for the user!! The Citrix server handles how the user interacts with the installed OS and programs.

That actually was a point I just thought of after posting my last message. If desktops run off Citrus (lets say they're all WYSE), and all desktops require MS Office, are 26 licences still needed?

S0litaire

yup! You still need individual licenses for each user.
Unless you use something like Libre Office which is free and requires no user license.

Libreoffice.org

Cotta

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this to me.