Stories about: Neoware Systems

Automated software distribution has been a hot topic in desktop management, but the next big thing is on-demand software delivery. While ASD tools help control desktop support costs by making software installations consistent, the on-demand software-delivery technologies go one step further: They can virtualize the local installation and stream the applications -- and even the operating system -- from a central distribution server in real time.

Microsoft is working on two thin client versions of Windows XP to offer a lower cost operating system alternative for users of server-centric computing, people familiar with the company's plans said.

Marking an important milestone for China's domestic chip industry, Beijing's Arca Technology Corp. is set to become the first Chinese company to provide microprocessors for a line of computers sold in markets around the world.

Every year Dave Raspallo, CIO at Textron Financial, found himself having to replace a third of his 1,200 PCs. But he grew tired of the cost of the annual ritual, and he began swapping out his desktops for thin clients. Forty percent of those PCs are now gone, and many more will disappear next year.

In the wake of flat earnings and another quarterly loss, Neoware Systems Inc. is scrapping its line of thin-client terminals and becoming a software vendor.

Thin-client maker Neoware Systems jumped into the Linux swirl last week with a thin version of Linux - and a hardware box to back it up - designed for everything from cash registers to security appliances.

Neoware Systems is readying two lines of thin clients, one that runs a stripped-down edition of Linux and one that runs Microsoft's Windows CE. The thin clients will be offered as Internet devices designed to handle specific tasks such as Web browsing and e-mail exchange.