Legend chooses Wyse as partner to bring latest desk top technology to the health and fitness industry – June 2002

Legend today announced that it has completed its evaluation of thin-client hardware suppliers, and has selected Wyse, the worldwide leader in managed thin clients, to be its preferred supplier to customers within the leisure industry.

Server based systems, also known as Application Service Provision (ASP),is one of the IT industry’s hottest growth area. Reduced costs, increased security, speed of deployment and flexibility are driving companies to centralise their IT systems by adopting server based architectures.

Wyse Technology, the worldwide leader in thin-client devices with 50% market share, is driving the Post-PC era to server based systems with the Wyse Winterm(TM) range of thin clients. Wyse Winterm(TM) thin clients are a secure, manageable way to deliver the productivity and application flexibility of a PC without the high service costs, low reliability, and short product life. These desktop devices run popular Windows applications from central servers and display the applications on a monitor. With thin client computing you now have an affordable, secure and reliable desktop computing platform. Unlike PCs, thin clients have no internal moving parts such as fans or disk drives, which can break down and require replacement.

Legend, the total club management solution used by some of the world’s largest health club chains such as Gold’s Gym International, is now working in partnership with Wyse to bring customers the substantial commercial benefits of its software delivered using the ASP model and Wyse thin client interfaces.

Case studies have proven that this model will reduce IT infrastructure dramatically allowing clients access to the latest applications and use of the latest technology with no need to own the hardware or manage the network.

Legend presents the ultimate solution, a unique partnership that unites ‘best of breed’ in critical categories to deliver the definitive solution to customers. Other Legend solution partners include Citrix and Microsoft.