Thin Clients Gain Momentum in India With Huge Corporate Roll-outs at Robert Pogson

People love small cheap computers even when they are thin clients and used in businesses, offices and schools. In my opinion, thin clients should be the default solution, preferably with GNU/Linux. It’s the right way to do IT.

“The past few years have seen businesses in India showing a great deal of interest in understanding the pros and cons of desktop virtualization, evaluating the benefits and taking major steps to adopt this technology. A report by Gartner also substantiates this upward trend in desktop virtualization adoption, estimating that by 2013, 40 percent of all corporate desktops will be virtual desktops. Gartner also says that the desktop virtualization market is estimated to be worth at least USD 1.8 billion by 2012.
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Another group that is betting big on desktop virtualization is the Essar Group, which plans to move its 90 -95 percent workforce to Citrix XenDesktop platform and aims to complete implementation of virtual desktops for 40,000 users in the next one year. This is expected to save the company more than 40 percent in desktop computing costs by enabling easy, centralized management of desktops and applications and reducing the need to refresh expensive hardware.”

See InformationWeek – Virtualization > Desktop virtualization gains momentum in India.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.