Pilot Project Proposal

Proposed by: Dennis Heltzel

Executive Summary:

A practical implementation of Thin Client Computing has been elusive in the industry. About a year ago, IKON conducted a "Network Computer Pilot Project" with the hopes of providing a lower-cost migration strategy for the hundreds of "dumb terminals" presently in use. Two vendors were invited to participate (IBM and Oracle). This pilot quickly unearthed the flaws in these systems. Our conclusion was that they could not be used by IKON with out a lot of customization. That customization would have been very costly and the results still probably not optimal, so the project was terminated. Since that time, I have created a system which meets or exceeds all the goals of that project, and am proposing another pilot of thin client computing using the system that I developed.

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