From nontechnical managers to IS professionals everyone responsible for deploying desktop environments is looking for ways to get high performance and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). This book shows you how you can do both. UNDERSTANDING THIN-CLIENT/SERVER COMPUTING provides thorough coverage of the thin-client/server technology developed by Citrix Systems for Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft Windows NT®. This proven technology enables the latest 32-bit applications to run on new or old PCs Apple® Macintosh® computers Windows-based terminals NetPCs or network computers from a server. You'll learn how this approach simplifies software updates configuration training and maintenance. You'll also get an invaluable overview of such crucial issues as:
The thin-client/server computing model

Ways of deploying applications

An architectural overview of the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) Services and the relationship of WinFrame to Microsoft Windows NT Server

What hardware you can use

Planning the thin-client/server environment

Thin-client/server computing on the Web

In addition an entire chapter is devoted to case studies that show how different types of organizations put together cost-effective solutions and achieved results that exceeded their own expectations.