LISCON is a software company creating management software for Thin Clients and a Linux based operating system for their Thin Clients and those of other manufacturers, as well as PCs. The company was founded in 2000 and filed for bancruptcy in May 2010. The company was closed down in August 2010.

LISCON Management Console

Differently to the quite common use of cloning the settings of a thin client via network or an USB memory key, the central management console allows different settings for each client with the LISCON OS or LISCON's XPe

XPE

XPE may refer to:*Windows XP Embedded, Microsoft's embedded operating system*XPE...

 and reapplies them if the Thin Client or its hardware is changed. The settings include hardware settings like screen resolutions as well as properties for connections like RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

Remote Desktop Protocol is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to another computer. The protocol is an extension of the ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol. Clients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows , Linux, Unix, Mac OS...

, Citrix ICA

Independent Computing Architecture

Independent Computing Architecture is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform....

 or VMware View

VMware View

In computing, VMware View is a commercial desktop-virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc. Its first two releases sold under the name VMware VDM, but with the 3.0.0 release in 2008VMware Inc. changed the name to "VMware View"....

. Firmware updates are possible as well as VNC to the client.
It is possible to define certain groups and hand down all or specific settings to sub groups in the client’s hierarchy, therefore supporting large networks of Thin Clients. The Management Console itself is a web application and with an optimized iPhone version. The LISCON OS offers configuration via http, if a management console is not used. Currently, the Management Console is free of charge for up to 50 clients according to their website.

LISCON OS

Liscon OS is the operating system installed on Liscon linux clients. It is currently based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS but heavily modified to fit into smaller flash sizes and fit into a management console environments. Liscon makes a point of being able to reflash different competitors devices and being able to manage them.

Client Hardware

LISCON is selling rebranded hardware from a few vendors including Fujitsu-Siemens and HP (as of April 2009) plus a few self-engineered models for special purposes.

Founding and awards

LISCON Informationstechnologie GmbH was founded in 2000 in Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. In 2002, LISCON received the innovation and research award of Carinthia

Carinthia (state)

Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...

, Austria.

Competitors

Competitors in the market place include: Wyse

Wyse

Wyse Technology is an American company that is a leading manufacturer in Cloud Client Computing. Products include thin client hardware and software as well as desktop virtualization. Other products include cloud software-supporting desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices...

, Igel

Igel

Igel is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Igel is known for the Igel Column, a 23 m high Roman decorated tomb. The Igel Column is a UNESCO World Heritage Site....

 and Neoware

Neoware

Neoware was a company that manufactured and marketed a type of computer hardware called thin clients.It also developed and marketed enterprise software, thin client appliances, and related services aimed at reducing the TCO of IT infrastructure....

 beside others. Partners are VXL, HP and Fujitsu

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

.