Now, with the thin client model, processing has again shifted to centralised servers, with thin clients attached to it. As businesses continue to look for solutions to cut costs, ease management headaches, and improve security, the thin client architecture has evolved to be a technologically viable answer. Despite being a small segment of the total PC market, the worldwide shipments of thin clients doubled in 1999, as more companies look to thin clients as a panacea to some IT woes. Thin clients are desktop computers that do not offer the full functionality of a personal computer. Being thin, is in The popularity of the thin client is definitely on the rise.
Some people say that cheap, fast and good are mutually exclusive terms.
I tend to agree. However, I want to suggest that your enterprise can be wiser-not by budgeting for good products, but by budgeting for good services. This is a better way to protect your investments because good service often comes with service level agreements, as well as bundled products that are constantly maintained and upgraded for you. When you think about thin client and network-based computing, Linux probably comes to mind far later than Windows Terminal Services, MetaFrame, Tarantella, and Sun Ray. And this in turn will make the thin client model more attractive to companies.