| Author | Message | < Hardware general ~ New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback | | tech | | Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback | | | | Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 42307 | | One of the seemingly eternal questions in managing personal computers within organizations is whether to centralize computing power (making it easy to upgrade or secure The One True Computer, and its data), or push the power out toward the edges, where an individual user isn't crippled because a server at the other side of the network is down, or if the network itself is unreliable. Despite the ever-increasing power of personal computers, the New York Times reports that the concept of making individual users' screens portals (smart ones) to bigger iron elsewhere on the network is making a comeback. 
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