Is the Ndiyo project tied to a particular vendor?
No. Ndiyo is a non-profit project, fundamentally independent of any commercial interests. But we felt that existing thin-client hardware didn’t live up to our vision and we were conscious that nobody would take our idea of ultra-thin-client computing seriously unless we could demonstrate that that it really works, technically and economically. So we decided to create a company to design and build kit that would enable our vision of an architecture that is spare, elegant and economical. At present we believe that the Nivo technology that emerged from our collaboration with DisplayLink had the best price/performance ratio, but we are also evaluating hardware from other sources. We’re pretty demanding, though – it must be both very high performance and very low cost.
