One install on the server handles hundreds of users. Computer problems are much easier and cheaper to troubleshoot since the technician operates on the server rather than on the user's machine. If the user needs more speed or storage space, the system administrator juices up the server. This is much cheaper and faster than replacing 100 desktop machines just because they are running a bit slow. Dumb terminals had to be hard wired to the machine from which they were going to extract data.
Thin clients use the power of the Internet to access servers all over the world.
In addition, they use the latest innovations in browser interfaces to make software access and data retrieval intuitively simple for the user. A thin client system is currently being operated on a test basis in one of the Robinson labs. As background, the current LAN servers are struggling to do their jobs. Each time a new version of some software is loaded, it increases the load on the server because new software is usually more complex with greater memory requirements than the old software. UCIS is in the process of installing four new servers.