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Yes.
Not to give a difficult answer, but both no and yes. "Push" technology, put simply, is data sent to a client, and received by, without being requested by the client), push By defiinition, a thin client is a display station only (although there are thin client functions available working within stand-alone computing devices or even browser windows). All computing is done, again by definition, on the server. For all intents and purposes, however, most thin clients are used to as PC's (from display to CPU and memory) to users, and are capable of running most contemporary operating systems and applications. The biggest concern is with rich media (i.e.: video) and other data-intensive applicaitons in which network bandwidth and latency become an issue. That having been said, if your server is capable of pushing data, and the client environment (OS) and application (from browser to email to custom applications) can deal with asynchronous updates (i.e.: "push", or data received without being requested by the client), push technology as a whole will work. If the question is whether thin clients not running as "slaves" to VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Solaris, Linux, etc... can receive asynchronous updates, I would rephrase the question, as the answer is, "No, thin clients can not receive USER generated push updates". As a rule, bare-client updates would be vendor-specific (if even possible), and would effect only a relatively small group of vendor- and implementation-specific client settings, and would not incorporate user data. Hope this helps.
Caldera Thin Clients was created in 1998.
Thin clients require fewer components than standard
HP Thin Clients are mainly used as affordable business computers. They can be used for a variety of things and are powerful enough to run most software.
"No, thin clients represent such a small percentage of the market that there isn't much hope for them. There is a lot of competition and variety in PDA to appeal to customers."
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Cheap thin clients are used as a cheap method of doing work for a different computer or computer program, called the server. They are often cheaper than fat clients.
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"Fat" clients already have their software (OS, apps, etc.) usually available to them. A "thin" client does not, and therefore has to download the software from a server. The net effect would cause the server to be busier (depending on the number of thin clients making requests). It may also take several attempts to successfully download the software depending on network quality.
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