Interesting!

What sort of quantities are we talking about to get that kind of deal?

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:00 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> Excellent point.
> 
> We were selling the ST320's at DisklessWorkstations.Com for quite a
> while, but we worked out an agreement with the mfg to get them without
> WinCE, so M$ didn't get any cut of the deal.
> 
> In fact, that's a major point for us, when we talk with hardware
> companies.  We even got HP to sell us the T5305 and T5505 without CE.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have precisely 0 experience with them, but it appears that they run
> > Wince or XPe, which means that no matter what OS you run on them,
> > microsoft still profits from the deal.  The get money from an OS sale,
> > and they get to jack their installed-based numbers - which contributes
> > to commercial developers preferring to develop for (only) microsoft
> > platforms.
> >
> > I have no control over you of course, but I hope you'll vote with your
> > dollars for a better candidate.
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:40 +0000, John McCreesh wrote:
> > > Has anyone any experience of using these with LTSP - e.g. can you PXE
> > > boot them or do you need to get them flashed? There's a reseller in the
> > > UK selling them for UKP175, which seems a reasonable price for a thin
> > > client.
> > >
> > > Thanks - John
> > >
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