[Ossie-planning] Re-evaluation of NComputing Thin client proposal for SCALE?

Orv Beach orv at socallinuxexpo.org
Tue Dec 4 22:58:11 PST 2007



Tim F. wrote:
> Ncomputing asked to be considered as a presenter on the Education day 
> as a provider of thin client solutions in schools.
>
> I told them since NComputing was primarily a hardware vendor, they 
> weren't quite what we were looking for.
>
> Here's their response. I have to admit, 180,000 Linux desktops in a 
> school system sounds quite interesting, but some of the other comments 
> are less exciting. What does everyone else think? Would it be 
> beneficial to SCALE and Educational FOSS to have them speak?
>
> Tim
>
> --- message from NComputing ---
>
> I appreciate your note earlier but NComputing strongly feels they 
> could be
> of great benefit to your audience. Here's a note from Gabriele 
> Sartori, who
> would be the speaker: 
> Although true, we sell HW, SW is a fundamental part of our IP and it 
> is the
> special sauce behind our HW. Our Linux terminal server has proven to be a
> major factor in lowering the cost of computing when associated to our 
> HW and
> opened new opportunities particularly in education and emerging 
> market. In
> fact, we have much more SW developers than HW developers.
>
> We enable the entire school system of the country of Macedonia  with our
> solution, with an incredible low budget the Government of Macedonia 
> gave the
> opportunity to 400000 students to have a computer screen in front of them
> for the entire daily activities in their classroom. A total of 180K seats
> when fully deployed. All done in Linux, all done with our SW & HW.
>
> This has been one of the biggest installation of Linux in the history 
> of IT
> in education, something that make us very proud, not only for the size of
> the installation but for the ability to put so many student in front of
> Linux. These guys will grow learning that Linux is a tremendously 
> powerful
> operating system and will benefit during their entire life from this
> learning.
>
> The Linux community must understand these things, we can't be 
> discounted as
> "another thin client company that happen to support Linux" because it 
> is not
> the case.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> RE: So Cal Expo Speaking
> From:
> "Cedric Vanhaver" <cvanhaver at globalfluency.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:58:21 -0800
> To:
> <tfrichtel at socal.rr.com>
>
> To:
> <tfrichtel at socal.rr.com>
>
>
> Tim,
>
> I appreciate your note earlier but NComputing strongly feels they could be
> of great benefit to your audience. Here's a note from Gabriele Sartori, who
> would be the speaker:  
>
> Although true, we sell HW, SW is a fundamental part of our IP and it is the
> special sauce behind our HW. Our Linux terminal server has proven to be a
> major factor in lowering the cost of computing when associated to our HW and
> opened new opportunities particularly in education and emerging market. In
> fact, we have much more SW developers than HW developers.
>
> We enable the entire school system of the country of Macedonia  with our
> solution, with an incredible low budget the Government of Macedonia gave the
> opportunity to 400000 students to have a computer screen in front of them
> for the entire daily activities in their classroom. A total of 180K seats
> when fully deployed. All done in Linux, all done with our SW & HW.
>
> This has been one of the biggest installation of Linux in the history of IT
> in education, something that make us very proud, not only for the size of
> the installation but for the ability to put so many student in front of
> Linux. These guys will grow learning that Linux is a tremendously powerful
> operating system and will benefit during their entire life from this
> learning.
>
> The Linux community must understand these things, we can't be discounted as
> "another thin client company that happen to support Linux" because it is not
> the case.
>
> Would you be available for a conversation with Gabriele Sartori this week to
> discuss this?
>
> -Cedric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Frichtel [mailto:tfrichtel at socal.rr.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:55 PM
> To: Cedric Vanhaver
> Subject: Re: So Cal Expo Speaking
>
> Cedric,
>
> Sorry to take so long to get back to you.  I contacted the other speaker 
> chairs.  At this time we'd like to keep the focus on Linux and Open 
> Source Software.  I realize the NComputing product works with Linux, but 
> it seems more oriented to a general hardware discussion which isn't 
> quite what we're looking for.
>
> Thanks for offering though!  Perhaps as the show grows in the future we 
> can expand the focus.
>
> Tim
>
> Cedric Vanhaver wrote:
>   
>> Tim, thanks for letting me know. So, it is conceivable to have vendors
>> speaking at the conference, correct? Or perhaps, we could have a person
>>     
> from
>   
>> NComputing and a IT Administrator from a school speaking?
>>
>> -Cedric
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Frichtel [mailto:tfrichtel at socal.rr.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:34 PM
>> To: Cedric Vanhaver
>> Subject: Re: So Cal Expo Speaking
>>
>> Cedric,
>>
>> There are several speaker tracks open beside education.  It sounds like 
>> you should do a general submission  
>> http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/documents/scale6x-cfp.pdf
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Cedric Vanhaver wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Are technology vendors invited to speak at the SoCal Expo to take 
>>> place in February? I believe the deadline is coming up for speaker 
>>> submissions and I was wondering if the speaking slots are only for 
>>> people in education?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> -Cedric
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> ---------------------------
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> *Cedric Vanhaver*
>>>
>>> Director, Client Services
>>>
>>> GlobalFluency  |  Neale-May & Partners
>>> Tel: (650) 433-4154
>>>
>>> Cell: (650) 248-3082
>>> 4151 Middlefield Road
>>> Palo Alto, CA 94303
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>
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