Linux International is a nonprofit association that promotes and helps direct the growth of the Linux OS and the Linux community . For these and more Linux resources, click here Case Study Neoware looks to Linux Company bets on cheap, general-purpose Linux appliances Summary Neoware made its name selling thin clients for Windows. Now it has built a new strategy around embedded systems, appliances, and Linux. By Rick Cook eoware, a company best known for its Windows thin clients, has found a new direction. In addition to Windows thin clients, the company now offers Eon, an x86 appliance box, as well as NeoLinux, a version of Red Hat Linux specialized for embedded systems.
Eon is the Swiss army knife of Linux appliances.
It is built on the proposition that a single cheap Linux box can replace everything from routers to card readers to cash registers to thin clients, depending on what software is loaded on it. The Eon platform and NeoLinux, our embedded Linux, and a suite of management tools lets you manage, configure and even upgrade them across the net. It is so standard, in fact, that Neoware sells the same box, loaded with Windows CE, as the NeoStation 3000C, a thin client for Windows applications. Since Eon and NeoLinux just debuted in April, few products have been released, but the concept seems to be attracting attention. For years, SAI had wanted to offer a building access-control device, built around standard hardware, that included software that could handle most readers and still be easy to network.