We buy off lease PCs and use them out on the shop floor. They normally run us about $130.
We give our users an internal email client and then RDP for Vantage.
The really special ones might get solitaire if they are lucky :)(Not really)
We give our users an internal email client and then RDP for Vantage.
The really special ones might get solitaire if they are lucky :)(Not really)
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "brucewbrannan" <bruce.brannan@...> wrote:
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> We run our MES on thin clients. The most popular ones in this forum seem to be the WYSE clients but I found HP t5325 clients for about $180 each (much cheaper than WYSE). They come with a keyboard and mouse, though we swapped the keyboards for the dust/water proof rubber ones. You can configure them as a kiosk where they just immediately load the RDP client to your terminal server. HP also offers a free management software to manage them all from a server but with just a few clients its total overkill. All you have to do is configure one and then backup its image to a flash drive. You can deploy the image to the other clients in minutes. If you have a power outage they just reboot right back to the rdp session like nothing happened. We have about 16 of them and zero problems in a year.
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@> wrote:
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> > Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?
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