Market saturation? At some point, everyone who uses thin clients for desktop virtualisation will have more or less all the thin clients they need. And if the main use is office-like applications there is no need to replace the hardware every two years or so.
Thin client market gets even thinner, down seven per cent in a year
Thin client sales have dipped 6.9 per cent in a year, to just 5.08 million, according to the abacus-shufflers at analyst firm IDC, which says 5.454m devices shipped in 2014. The firm thinks the dip is attributable to economic factors, rather than a loss of interest in thin clients or desktop virtualisation (VDI). Lower public …
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Tuesday 29th March 2016 06:26 GMT Shugyosha
ChromeOS eating into the market?
XenApp \ Desktop has been my been my bread and butter for 18ish years now and so I've spent a fair bit of time with thin clients over the years. These days however I would deploy a ChromeBox or ChromeBook before one of the traditional toasters and I know of a number of big rollouts that have done the same. I expect that might have something to do with the decline.
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Tuesday 29th March 2016 10:33 GMT dajames
Re: ChromeOS eating into the market?
These days however I would deploy a ChromeBox or ChromeBook before one of the traditional toasters ...
Well, quite. I'd have thought the sales figures for "thin clients" should include the figures for ChromeOS devices along with all the others, but these apparently don't.
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