NComputing Announces Availability of $70 Virtual PC Solutions on
Ubuntu Linux Operating System
License-Free Open-Source PC Solution With Complete Office Application
Suite
REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - November 20, 2007) - NComputing, the
leading provider of virtual PC solutions, today announced the
availability of its products on the open-source Ubuntu Linux
operating system. Joining its Windows-based offerings, the NComputing
open-source solution allows schools and businesses worldwide to
deploy full virtual PC stations, complete with hardware, software,
the Ubuntu operating system and the OpenOffice.org productivity
suite, at unprecedented low costs by leveraging the excess power of
their PCs and open-source license-free software.
This innovative solution, winner of the Wall Street Journal
Technology Innovation Award for computer systems, allowed the
Republic of Macedonia to fully deploy 180,000 student seats --
complete with 15" monitors, shared PCs and all software (including
OpenOffice.org), peripherals, installation and training -- for less
than 25% of the cost of the least expensive PC per-seat deployment.
Counting both Windows and Linux deployments, NComputing is already
responsible for almost 5 percent of all new student seat computing
purchases in United States K-12 public schools, a remarkable
achievement for a company in only its second year of shipping
products.
"NComputing has dramatically reduced the cost of PC computing to
empower a new generation of users in underserved markets worldwide
with affordable PC solutions," said Stephen Dukker, CEO and Chairman
of NComputing. "Our virtual PC solutions, when combined with
open-source software such as Ubuntu Linux and OpenOffice.org, are
hard to beat. Macedonia may represent the largest global educational
Linux rollout, but momentum is building rapidly in the US, with major
Linux commitments by school districts in such locations as San Diego,
Ohio, Indiana, and New York."
"Like most school districts around the world, Macedonia's education
system has limited financial and infrastructural resources to address
its need to provide all students with access to computers and
technology," said Ivo Ivanovski, Macedonia's Minister for the
Information Society. "By adopting NComputing's low-cost virtual PC
technology bundled with Ubuntu software, Macedonia is taking the lead
in providing computer-based education for school children."
The NComputing solution, available with both Linux and Windows
operating systems, capitalizes on a simple fact: Today's PCs are so
powerful that the vast majority of applications only use a small
fraction of their computing capacity. NComputing's virtualization
software taps this unused capacity so that it can be simultaneously
shared by multiple users. Each user's monitor, keyboard, and mouse
are connected to a very small and highly reliable access device,
which is then connected to the shared PC. The access device itself
has no CPU, memory, or moving parts, and the solution is easy to
deploy and maintain. NComputing systems start at $70 per seat and in
the past 18 months, over 500,000 NComputing systems have been
deployed around the world.
About NComputing, Inc.
Winner of the Wall Street Journal's 2007 Technology Innovation Award,
NComputing, Inc. was founded with the goal of making computing
affordable for everyone. NComputing is a privately held software and
hardware technology design and manufacturing company with offices in
Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Korea, Mexico, Poland,
Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Headquartered in
Redwood City, CA, the company's patented technologies drastically
lower costs, improve manageability and reduce energy consumption. The
current product lines deliver virtual PC computing solutions that are
as low as $70 per user, affordable enough for even the smallest
organization yet powerful enough for enterprise-scale applications.
Media Contacts:
Cedric Vanhaver
GlobalFluency
(650) 433-4154
cvanhaver@globalfluency.com
David Rand
NComputing, Inc.
(650) 517-5806
drand at ncomputing dot com