Thin-Clients offer the best of all possible worlds:

• Performance
• Security
• Easier Administration
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Simple to use yet powerful access devices, centrally and easily managed
• Rapidly deploy new devices and new applications

The introduction of the new network operating system platform, Windows 2000 Server from Microsoft Corporation, offers every purchaser of this new and advanced server software the option of deploying a less expensive, more efficient, more productive, and safer IT architecture than has ever been available before in the Windows NT environment.

Using the multiuser capabilities of Terminal Services, a feature in the Windows 2000 Server family of products (Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter), organizations can deliver the benefits of the Windows 2000 Professional desktop client software environment immediately to all their users, without having to upgrade or replace any of their current desktop machines. Enabling the Terminal Services applications mode option is the fastest way to upgrade your desktop PC to Windows 2000, with no extra desktop hardware costs.

In addition, by taking this path to Windows 2000, these organizations can limit their dependence on less reliable desktop PC hardware. By transferring all applications and data to centralized server-based computing, organizations can free themselves of the maintenance, support, and upgrade challenges posed by PCs. They also can improve their software and network administration and management, add value to the corporation by increasing productivity, efficiency, IT availability and security, and can deploy this and other applications more rapidly. They can achieve all these benefits while lowering the cost of providing and supporting desktop computing assets-achieving a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Many of these values are delivered-to a lesser degree-by Windows 2000 operating in its conventional, PC client/server mode. But the investment required in new or upgraded PCs, in increased bandwidth, and in increasingly complex administration tasks makes the alternative-Terminal Services-a very attractive option to explore.

Finally, with Terminal Services enabled all software and data are now stored and executed at the central server level, and there is the opportunity for a simpler, more robust, more reliable desktop device that can deliver PC-like performance, at a fraction of the total life-cycle cost. That device is the Windows-based terminal. Implementing Windows 2000 Terminal Services in Application mode permits organizations to begin integrating true thin clients-Windows-based terminals-into their desktop community. Windows-based terminals, such as the Wyse WintermTM Windows-based terminal, can replace PCs in up to 80 percent of corporate situations while guaranteeing all the operating and productivity benefits Terminal Services offers. Whether now or in the future, Windows-based terminals will deliver significant advantages over other desktop technology, because they are designed and tailored to excel in the Terminal Services environment.

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