Thin Clients

In an ideal world, it would be easy to deploy and manage the robust client/server applications that tap today’s abundant PC power. But if you support a distributed computing environment built around the Wintel computing architecture, you know better. To a large extent, the culprit is a Microsoft OS deign that’s not quite at home in the enterprise. While hundreds of add-on products promise to reduce cost of ownership though centralized desktop …

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