Thin Client Computing Comes Of Age

Saturday, 09 September 2006 by Michel Roth

Thin client technology has come of age and can help boost security and trim IT costs, according to a panel of users.

With the PC now 25 years old, a number of competing technologies - such as thin clients and new entrants like blade PCs - are providing companies with more options. Last month Gartner warned the PC will face more competition as cheap bandwidth and processing power make new styles of application delivery possible

Frank Norton, IT director at US law firm Morrison Mahoney, has just completed a rollout of 400 thin clients in all of the firm's offices. "The reason for that was TCO [total cost of ownership]," he said.
If they walk away with the thin client they walk away with nothing.

Read the entire article at Silicom.com.