Thin and Thinner: Wireless Poised to Shake Up Thin Client Landscape - Industry Trend or Event

ENT, Oct 11, 2000 by Joseph Mckendrick

This cultural bias against thin clients could be exacerbated in companies with large groups of power users. "Most users here require lots of personal productivity, and this is not prime turf for thin-client deployments," observes the IT manager of a site with 6,500 thin clients.

Bandwidth and network issues are difficulties cited by 43 percent of respondents. System architecture issues also stymied 45 percent of respondents in implementing thin clients.

"We've written a thick-client system that uses less resources than a thin one," says a financial services IT manager. "Performance at the client is fast and often requires no data communications -- code files reside at the client but are automatically updated so the user community has no responsibilities for updating their machines. Sure beats dealing with the ever-changing browsers and the subsequent problems that presents."