Yet the support issues of having more than 1,400 new devices on the network will be minimized through Citrix MetaFrame's centralized administration. Hughes Hall at Cambridge University Gaining an edge in the competition for students. Today, even the most prestigious schools face stiff competition for students. Hughes Hall, one of the colleges of England's Cambridge University, found that a Citrix solution could help the college differentiate itself by giving every student free access to applications and data from his or her room. The solution mostly uses recycled 486 computers purchased at a substantial savings.
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This is a cost-effective way we've found to deploy modern software. Libraries Rave reviews at two university libraries. The Boston campus, which serves as many as 15,000 students, and the Dartmouth campus, which serves 5,700 students, implemented separate Citrix MetaFrame solutions at the same time. Before the switch, anonymous users at both campuses often used the PCs in the libraries to hack into the system, at one point changing passwords and locking out administrators. Apurva Mehta, Head of Library Systems at the University of Massachusetts Library at Boston, estimates he saves as many as 20 man-hours a week with Citrix MetaFrame.