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Thin Client Technology

Overview Thin Client is an industry accepted standard achieving significant savings over the cost of traditional PC's. Thin Client technology is essentially PC's without local and removable storage. This simpler model affords many advantages to the enterprise including lower acquisition cost, lower maintenance cost and better security. This paper provides an introduction to Windows Terminal Services, Thin Client and Server-based Computing. This paper presents what industry analysts report and their projections on the future for Thin Client computing.

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Publisher	Technical Resource Group	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2004	Downloads	1154
Format	White Papers
Topics	Application Servers, Thin Clients, ROI - TCO

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