Over the past several months, major industry vendors have made a business case for the network computer as a win-win solution toward lowering total cost of ownership. This report provides results from Phase I of the Ames Research Center network computer evaluation project. It identifies factors to be considered for determining cost of ownership; further, it examines where, when, and how network computer technology might fit in NASA's desktop computing architecture. Paluzzi, Peter and Miller, Rosalind and Kurihara, West and Eskey, Megan Ames Research Center RTOP 992-21-03...