Hi, Really sad. Buying one desktop and creating 'five' seats is probably cheaper than 5 or 6 XOs. However, it restricts use to the school day. The ability for the child to take the laptop home is crucial. Think, for example, of the impact of the laptop on the other members of the family.
Tony Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:14:37 -0500 From: Kevin Cole <[email protected]> Subject: [IAEP] Userful Linux & ThinNetworks to deploy 300, 000+ virtualized desktops in Brazil To: iaep <[email protected]>, Grassroots OLPC <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, The following was sent to me on the Ubuntu DC LoCo mailing list, and I thought it might be of interest to some on these lists. ____________________________________________________ PRESS RELEASE: Userful and ThinNetworks Announce the World's Largest Desktop Virtualization Deployment - 356,800 Green Workstations Calgary, Canada, and Brasilia, Brazil - February 17, 2009 -- Userful and ThinNetworks today announce that they have been selected to supply 356,800 virtualized desktops to schools in all of Brazil's 5,560 municipalities. More at: http://www2.userful.com/company/linux-desktop-virtualization About Userful Userful is the industry leader in desktop virtualization and multi-station Linux computing: the low-cost, high-performance alternative to thin clients. Userful's powerful software transforms standard PCs to support up to 10 simultaneous monitors, keyboards and users, and manages them all at once through a central website. Privately held and founded in 1999, Userful launched their flagship product in 2003 and was recently named Alberta's 10th fastest growing company under $20 million in revenue. A free 2-user version of Userful Multiplier software for home use is available from www.userful.com/free-2-user . Userful software is used in over 100 countries, and is bringing affordable green desktop computing to millions of users worldwide. http://www.userful.com/ -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
