Also called a "zero client," the ultra-thin client is reminiscent of the Java-centric network computer in the 1990s that never took off. See thin client. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

I wonder if thin client will make a come back or it will die horribly just like last time with Java? Seems potentially interesting for some in enterprise/education, where the prIce is apparently ...

This is very much the model proposed by thin-client makers in the late 1990s, when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison predicted that Java-based clients could replace Windows. Yeo acknowledges the thin ...

Prime contenders in the rich-client struggle are Java, .Net, and Flash ... Bosworth’s hunch is that a Web-style thin client, driven by a rich data model intelligently synchronized with the ...

Thin clients leave the heavy computational lifting ... Project HotSwap to let administrators switch out Java program components without having to stop the program using the components, and uses ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java Desktop System, which includes Linux, has also been used for thin clients. Both the Windows XP thin clients will run with 64MB of RAM, a 50MB hard disk drive and a ...

Continuing its push to drive broader adoption of thin-client computing ... to enable “hot desking,” which allows users to use Java-based cards to switch devices on the fly, starting up ...

The web-deployable Java thin client is compatible with existing IT infrastructures, including Windows desktops. Unlike thick client architectures installed on individual workstations, Picture ...