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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » When I set up MC Ware in 1998 I spent the first three years persuading North East Business that there was no need to be stuck in the dark ages with the thin client "pizza box" style of computers. You may remember these machine as they had tiny monitors and the text on the screen was often green or orange. All had to be plugged into a mainframe or a single server and when that went down, everything stopped.
I offered a bright new world of the PC with your own CD Rom and floppy disk drive and even your own modem and most people took me up on the offer. Eight years later it's an about turn and I am pushing the virtues of the new thin client technology again. Technology has moved on considerably now and with fault tolerant server systems downtime is more or less a thing of the past. The thin clients have Wi-fi, Wireless Keyboards, Bluetooth and all of the mod cons you would expect from a PC but costing from ã70. Admittedly you will have to spend more than a few pounds on the server but you will love the benefits.
If you want more information on "thin or thick" please comment or drop me a line and I will point you in the direction of some independent white papers
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