1. WLD – Subject Orientation June 2007

2.  Basic concept of thin clients  Status of activities  Awareness thin clients will not be identical

3.  Developed to counter the high costs of PCs  Frequent replacement schedule  High management support costs  Higher the flexibility –the higher the support costs  Blend of current user interface (Windows) with the dumb terminal concept  Windows user friendly  Dumb clients – very cost effective

4.  1/3 size of a pc  Kleenex box  No moving parts  Less maintenance  5-7 year life  Vs 3-4 for PCs  Windows ‘dumb terminals’  Really thin clients  all processing done on the servers  Newer thin clients  Embedded XP – have enough sw to run internet browser  Kiosks  Not blade computers (which you may have heard about)  Not Discover Station

5.  Refer to the attached scope document

6.  Cost savings of an estimated 1/2 million over 10 years  Increased stability  Higher ratio of clients to IT staff members  Longer life of equipment  Shared licensing vs per machine  http://www.military-medical- technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=1428 http://www.military-medical- technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=1428

7.  Four machines in Eaton have been running for several weeks  2 PAC  2 Internet  Two Pacs at Farr  Deployed for over a month  Two Public Internet  Deployed at Farr

8.  Example: patrons will need to put in flash drives prior to launching and Office Suite applications  Don’t load applications on them  Should be viewed as fairly static devices UNLESS the application can be deployed via a browser  May be more difficult to get a wide variety of games running on them  Refer to risks section of the scope document

9.  July 8  Go/no go decision for full conversion of CV public machines  Deployment of machines  Conference call with thin client implementations  August  Final go/no go for new facilities  Final go/no go for branch replacements  For you  Try out the thin clients units that are deployed