“Big Blue on Monday will add support for the Windows 2000
operating system to its Network Station computers, part of the
hardware genre known as ‘thin clients,’ or stripped-down PCs that
run programs off powerful server computers instead of from a unit
on the desk. IBM made a similar announcement regarding Linux–the
growing rival to Windows–earlier this week.”
“Much is happening in the revived networked computing realm,
and it’s actually Linux that’s leading the charge. IBM isn’t
the only major PC maker backing Linux in that realm. Compaq
Computer and Hewlett-Packard also introduced such systems last
year.”
“IBM will base its WBT thin client on the Network Station 2200,
which will be available in April.”