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Thank You all for the reponse. I will have approx 500 Thin clients servicing about 1200 students. The staff will have a networked PC at their desk for their SMART board and other programs. I will have a 10G backbone and gig to the desktop/thinclient. Bandwidth should not be a problem. We won't be running very much software in addition to Office. Most usage will be done via web based solutions. We will have a 100M connection to our ITC. I'm leaning toward the citrix solution with Xen server and Xen app. I will do some additional research on the HP clients in regards to your concerns, thanks for the heads up.

Hello Guys/Gals, I am in a unique and envious position and would like some non-biased advice. My school district is currently close to completing a brand new K-12 facility and have approx. 1300 students and 125 Staff. After swaying back and forth between the traditional PC / server setup with approximately 500 PC's or going with Thin Clients, I have decided to go with the Thin clients for my students (500 clients). If you had your choice to get whatever you wanted what would you pick? THe VMWARE solutions or the Citrix XEN solutions? The only decision I have made so far is to purchase the HPt5570 Thin Client. I'll have approx 20/23 12 core AMD blades with 172GB of RAM. This is a totally new venture for me , but, I don't want to re-invent the wheel I am planning Server Virtualization(2008R2) and Windows 7 desktop virtualization for the clients.