15 Facts About Wyse

Wyse Technology was an independent American manufacturer of cloud computing systems.

Wyse are best remembered for their video terminal line introduced in the 1980s, which competed with the market-leading Digital.

Wyse Technology was founded in 1981 by Garwing Wu, Bernard Tse, and Grace Tse.

Wyse became famous in the 1980s as a manufacturer of character terminals.

In 1983, Wyse began shipping the WY50, a terminal that was priced some 44 percent lower than its nearest competitor.

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Wyse sold through 2-tier distribution, which limited growth in the late 1980s as mail order companies like Dell and Gateway entered the marketplace.

Wyse was an early innovator in off-shore electronics production, with its products being built in Taiwan in company owned facilities.

Wyse created a proprietary upgradability concept called Modular Systems Architecture, or MSA.

Wyse introduced the Winterm windows terminal models 2000 and 2500.

In 1997, Wyse introduced the first thin-client remote management software system, Wyse Remote Administrator.

In 2000 Wyse acquired Netier Technologies of Texas, and turned Netier's Rapport thin device management software into the Wyse Device Manager.

In 2003 Wyse went private and company shareholders reorganized the company, selling assets such as real estate and company-owned manufacturing facilities in favor of contract manufacturing.

In 2005, Wyse, working closely with Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, expanded thin clients to support the newly introduced virtual desktop infrastructure .

Wyse Technology is headquartered in Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California.

Wyse has published research on the environmental benefits of cloud client computing.