Novell, Wyse team for thin client Linux

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 07 August 2007 06:37

Business IT - Technology

Wyse and Novell are working in partnership to deliver Suse Enterprise Linux on thin clients.

"We are continuing to work together to deliver more value by allowing organizations to easily standardize on Linux without compromising on security, scalability and performance," said Ricardo Antuna, vice president of business development at Wyse.

The companies claim SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client is the only enterprise-quality Linux that provides easy configuration and management of desktop operating system images.

"The market opportunity for Linux and thin computing is tremendous,” said John Judge, vice president of worldwide alliances at Novell. “We already have several customers deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise on Wyse thin client devices. In the coming months, we look forward to working even more closely with Wyse and increasing our market momentum."

There are a variety of other thin client Linux products and projects, including the Linux Terminal Server Project, PXES (with 2X's ThinClientServer to manage the clients), Thinstation and Koolu.