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News Release from: ThinPrint | Subject: Remote Desktop Suite Premium 64
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Team on 30 September 2005
70% More Server Users With Driver-Free
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Thinprint has introduced what it claimed to be the world's first complete system for setting up a total server based computing environment under 64-bit Windows.
Thinprint, the print management software manufacturer, has introduced what it claimed to be the world's first complete system for setting up a total server based computing environment under 64-bit Windows According to the company, the Remote Desktop Suite Premium 64 bit promises high-performance remote access, up to 70 per cent more users per server, 80 per cent less network load during printing and direct support of 32-bit printer drivers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a premium version of the Remote Desktop Suite series, it also supports network printers.
The Thinprint software includes all necessary components, including Microsoft Terminal Service licenses for turning a Windows 2003 server in to a complete 64-bit server based computing environment.
The Remote Desktop Suite Premium 64 bit is now available worldwide from 500 Thinprint partners.
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In front of 200 partners at the fourth Thinprint international channel conference in Berlin (Germany) Thinprint announced the second edition of the Remote Desktop Suite Standard.
Estimated street price for customers with 20 users will be around US$4,000 and Euros.
Free demonstration versions of the Thinprint software can be downloaded from the company's website.
Extension packs are available for adding five more users or end devices each, added the company.
In addition to the 64-bit version, there are two product versions for 32-bit Windows on the market.
Remote Desktop Suite Standard is said to be suitable for setting up a server-based computing architecture in small to medium-sized businesses.
The Remote Desktop Suite Premium is geared towards medium-sized to large businesses who want to use additional protocols, or options of optimisation.
Carsten Mickeleit, the managing director of Thinprint, said: "We are proud that we are the first in the world to have been able to develop a 64-bit server-based computing solution to market readiness.
With this software, businesses setting up a centralised IT architecture can profit from a much higher number of users per server with the 64-bit platform and at the same time, enjoy high-performance print support." In Thinprint's opinion, print support has always been the Achilles' heel of Terminal Server and Citrix installations.
The issue becomes more severe under 64-bit Windows because only specific 64-bit printer drivers can be used - they first have to be developed for many older printer models.
The Remote Desktop Suite Premium 64 bit solves that problem with driver free printing, which makes it unnecessary to install printer drivers on the server.
It is, therefore, possible to continue using 32-bit drivers for older printers, added the company.
An increasing number of manufacturers of server based computing are moving the optimisation of print management to the centre of their efforts because otherwise, the differences in the high-performance of their products decrease in the eyes of the user, added Thinprint.
With Microsoft's announcement of improving the Terminal Services in Windows Longhorn, the differences will become even smaller, or disappear completely.
Mickeleit added: "Right now, our print management technology is about two-three years ahead of our competitors.
Things that others are just announcing have already been fully developed by us and in productive deployment a thousand times over.
With the 64-bit variants and our current development, we will greatly increase that head start.
Our customers can rely on the fact that our products will be the perfect, and probably the only intelligent, extension of Windows Longhorn Terminal Services.".
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