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Who needs thin clients?

Thin clients can meet many business needs:

∑ Businesses where end users have a well-defined set of tasks, such as general office

applications in medical, financial, educational, government, manufacturing, distribution,

or call center environments. Users can run a wide range of office software such as

Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint or unique applications required by your line of

business.

∑ Businesses that require a highly available network of computers connected to a

centralized server running mission-critical applications can greatly benefit from the

reliability of thin clients. Hospitals, insurance agencies, airline reservation centers, and

hotels are typical businesses that fall into this category.

∑ Businesses with departments that carry out highly standardized computing tasks, such as

sales or service call centers, data entry departments, or technical support desks, may

realize substantial cost savings by deploying thin clients rather than desktop PCs. The

computing power and flexibility of a desktop PC is often unnecessary and potentially

undesirable in this environment—users may load local applications, reconfigure, or

otherwise tamper with the integrity of a desktop PC.

∑ Educational institutions and similar organizations typically need more computing

resources on an ever-shrinking budget. Universities and schools with under-resourced IT

departments must keep hundreds or thousands of computers up and running with the

latest software, despite supporting multiple users per machine. Thin clients can meet

these challenges in two ways: with their solid construction and lack of moving parts, thin

clients are designed to withstand heavy usage; and, because applications and storage

usually reside on the server, the latest versions are always available to every user.

∑ Businesses using dumb terminals can upgrade to thin clients to offer a more robust

platform that can handle e-mail programs (such as Microsoft Outlook 2003) and

common business applications (such as Microsoft Word or Excel). The HP Compaq t5000

Thin Client series offers optional expansion that includes hard drive, diskette drive, or CD-

ROM capabilities with an external MultiBay. Terminal emulation gives thin clients access to

legacy database information.

IT managers at Fortune 1000 businesses which have aggressive cost-cutting agendas are

challenged to do more with less on a daily basis. Thin clients typically promote cost savings

by reducing the amount of IT support staff needed—they allow network administrators to

update software remotely rather than deploy it repeatedly at the desktop. In addition, new

thin clients are easy to deploy—often in less than 15 minutes.

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