You get higher productivity, simplified
desktop management and lowered costs. One of the most important benefits
cited by users of thin clients is the lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
A study by Zona Research shows that cost savings associated with thin
clients approached 57% over a five-year period.
These savings arise because:
- They have no moving parts, so they
don't break down, causing loss of productivity.
- They don’t use a local operating
system such as Windows 98 which can be unreliable or broken by
misguided users..
- They don't store data or software
locally, so all the applications and data are safely and securely
stored in a central location.
- Since they don't break down, and since
they have no local operating system, they let you drastically reduce
your desktop maintenance and help desk support costs, because users
can be administered / trained remotely.
- Easy configuration and distribution of
application software, with only one install per server required to
roll out a new application throughout the company.
- They can be remotely upgraded,
re-purposed and reconfigured without ever visiting the desktop.
- Because they're so simple, they can be
set up in minutes.
- A
Company wide hardware upgrade can be done just by upgrading the
server.
- The cost of new terminals is much
lower than that for a PC.
- They are an ideal migration path for
text terminal and PC.
Thin clients are more reliable than
desktop PC's with a Mean Time Between Failures of 175,000 hours versus.
20-30,000 hours MTBF for a PC.
They can also be put in environments that are too hostile for a PC were
dust or other contaminants would cause the moving parts of a PC to fail. |
