LTSP Advice

[Jim Herrmann]

I have a friend who owns a small business.  He is remodeling the 
workspace he and his employees use and he'd like to really modernize in 
the process.  The things he and his employees need are very well covered 
by linux, and he is seriously considering it.  The main application they 
use runs on a unix server, which they access through a terminal 
interface.  Definitely no problem there.  They also need mail, a shared 
calendar, a spreadsheet, a little bit of publishing, and they use 
Quicken a little.  I can show him Linux equivalents and Cross-Over 
Office, and let him choose what he thinks will work best for them.

Here's the thing that sounded appealing to him, then he took it a little 
farther.  I told him about running everything on a server and just have 
some simple X terminals on each person's workstation.  I'm starting to 
look at ltsp.org, but thought I would see if any of you guys had any 
experience you could share.  The other thing he thought would be great 
would be if these terminals could all be wireless, including the 
printers.  Then the only wires that would be required in the office 
would be power.  That would be cool, but I'm not sure if the technology 
is there yet.

Opinions?

Thanks,
Jim