donaskmi

Thanks for your very prompt and in depth replies - It seems to be dependent on the very many ways of implementing the architecture that will make or break the running of mem intensive software. We try and lead our ICT teaching here on the latest technologies but from what you guys are saying it looks as though its down to how Sun / Bradford partnership implement the architecture. At the moment it looks like we'll be fully BSF'd in three years. It would be interesting to know how present BSF schools get on running CS3 suite etc on the platforms that Sun have implemented? - Have SUN installed "fat"er clients for ICT labs and how well do they run? Does the school have to specify its ICT needs in the process or do I assume that SUN / Bradford have it all to hand? Does anyone know if they are running thin clients in the academies? Thanks for those that have commented already.

I work in a school that uses thin clients for word processing and the like but in the ICT labs we have fat clients as thin is too thin when running Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks with Netops in the background. My question is this; How do BSF schools get around the problem of graphics and memory intensive software running on thin client only architecture? I am an ICT teacher but years ago I once was a network manager so don't kick me out the forum yet. My school has applied for BSF funding and if given the go ahead we will have managed thin client architecture. Will I still be able to teach with all these programs running?