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IGEL deepens HP relationship

Just months after moving to a software-only strategy, thin client OS expert IGEL has got cosier  with HP,

In March IGEL gave up on hardware to focus on its software and said it would develop partnerships with HP, Lenovo and LG to cover hardware.

It seems that HP has certified the IGEL OS for its Elite t655 thin clients and will be pre-installed on the devices, which started shipping today.

IGEL gives up on thin clients

Thin client player IGEL has told its partners and customers that it is giving up making thin client hardware in March next year and will move to software offerings and hardware from its partners.

The company said that its chums Lenovo, HP and LG will give partners access to nine different thin client offerings and the firm has also developed partnerships with software players, including Microsoft, Citrix and VMware too.

Simon Townsend, IGEL’s field chief technology officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said it had kept partners in the loop as it had been winding down its hardware operation so the development would not come as a surprise to its channel.

Unicon sues IGEL Technology over leaks

Endpoint management vendor Unicon is taking legal action against fellow IGEL Technology over an allegation that former employees leaked company data.

Unicon CEO Philipp Benkler said customers, business partners and employee trust was a key priority for Unicon.

“We feel compelled to exhaust all legal options against IGEL Technology and some of its executives after we learned that strictly confidential trade secrets were extensively and systematically stolen from us.”

At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, several employees as well as Unicon’s former managing director had left to join its direct competitor IGEL Technology.

Dell hits the high spot

Dell logoEven though terminal clients are in an inexorable decline, thin clients performed quite well in 2014, with growth up 4.6 percent compared to the year before.

And there may be brighter news ahead for thin clients, according to a report from market research company IDC – enterprises are expected to resume projects in 2015 that were delayed by the worldwide slump.

The biggest beneficiary of client devices was Dell, which in the fourth quarter of last year had a 27.2 percent share.

HP took second place, with 25.5 percent of the market, followed by Centerm (10.8%), Igel (5.2%) and NComputing (5.1%).

The total number of units shipped in the quarter amounted to 1,418,402 units, a decline of 12.5 percent from the same period in 2013 – and the decline was due to terminal clients being rather old hat.

Dell did well because it won some key sales in the financial sector, IDC said.

NComputing saw its position in the pecking order drop to the number five positionm for the quarter.

Thin clients have their day

Dell logoAs many as 97 percent of enterprise client device are now thin clients and share continues to grow.

That’s according to market research firm IDC, reporting on sales in the second calendar quarter of this year.

Growth in these type of devices is epected to be 5.8 million units, that’s growth, year on year, of 6.2 percent.

And there’s a trend for enterprises to buy thin clients without operating systems – so called zero clients.  Those types of devices held a 27.9 percent share in Q2 2014, and up 22.8 percent from the first quarter this year.

Windows Embedded OS thin clients hold the lead with 41.6 percent share.

As far as vendors go, Dell (DellWyse) is top of the pile, with a 28.8 percent share. HP has fallen to number two, with 26.5 percent share.  Ncomputing is third at 11.6 percent share, followed by Centerm which has a large share in Chinese markets, and Igel which is strong in western Europe.