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Thin
Clients Designing
A Thin Client Network |
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| In designing a client-server application, there is a decision to be made as to which parts of the task should be done on the client, and which on the server. This decision can crucially affect the cost of thin clients and servers, the robustness and security of the application as a whole, and the flexibility of the design to later modification or porting. |
One design
question is how application-specific the thin client software
should be. Using standardized thin client software such as
a Web
browser or X11 display can save on development costs,
since one does not need to develop a custom client—but
one must accept the limitations of the standard client.Depending
on the outcome of these decisions we might say that we use
either one or both (or a mixture of both). |
Thin
Client Terminals: "Thin client" has also
been used as a marketing term for computer appliances designed to
run thin client software. An X terminal, Wyse Winterm, Clearcube
or Web kiosk might be considered thin clients in this sense.
Thin Client Software:There are also software-only thin clients which run on standard PC hardware or even on dedicated PCs as previously mentioned. The best example of this thin client software is PXES Universal Linux Thin Client and Pilotlinux.
A thin client may be a program or a device for the execution of
thin-client application programs. Unfortunately, however, there
is no precise definition (in quantifiable terms) for when the client
program or device may be called a thin client or not.
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