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Thin Clients Revisited

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Robert Pogson

I’ve long advocated using GNU/Linux thin clients in schools and offices. It just makes sense to save licensing costs and simplify maintenance. IGEL reports “Shipments of Linux-based endpoint devices” were 35% of units shipped in 2017. See “Linux and the … Continue reading →

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Thin Clients, The Walking Dead Of Computing

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Robert Pogson

“In those early days, even as we swapped the serial cables for network ones, shrunk the cases, and doubled the performance, it didn’t take long before thin clients were banished to niche use cases, becoming the territory of call centers, … Continue reading →

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Legacy PCs Continue Nose-diving In 2016

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“global smartphone sales will for the first time exhibit single-digit growth in 2016. Global smartphone sales are estimated to reach 1.5 billion units in 2016, a 7 per cent growth from 2015. The total mobile phone market is forecast to … Continue reading →

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Smartphones, The New Implanted PCs

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Robert Pogson

“Global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter will increase to 396.8 million units, leading to 1.326 billion units for 2015 which will rise 10.1% on year.” See Digitimes Research: Over 331 million smartphones shipped globally in 3Q15Wow! M$ used to brag … Continue reading →

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Security? Cost? Go With Thin Clients

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Robert Pogson

In large organizations paranoid about security and having huge IT bills, thin clients are the way to go.“it quickly became clear that the DoD network, with more than 15,000 different sub-networks, was simply too large and had too many distributed … Continue reading →

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Finnish Schools Save Big With FLOSS

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Robert Pogson

“Municipalities in Finland that have switched their schools to Linux and other open source solutions are saving millions of euro. Typically, our centrally managed open source computers are at least 40 percent cheaper than the proprietary alternative. The total savings … Continue reading →

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Lenovo And IBM Go Another Round

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Robert Pogson

In a manner similar to the sale of the PC business, IBM has agreed to sell the x86 server business to Lenovo. One detail that I think is important is that “Approximately 7,500 IBM employees around the world, including those … Continue reading →

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The Writing On The Wall: Tablets And Smartphones Are The New PCs

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Robert Pogson

Some of the trolls lurking here keep harping that small cheap computers just cannot replace the legacy PC because they lack something: keyboards, kilowatt PSUs or whatever. The fact is that that a large segment of users don’t require those … Continue reading →

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Retail Shelves

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Robert Pogson

Unfortunately, I can’t drive around to a lot of retailers to examine their shelves so this survey of the web will have to do. I will restrict myself to Canadian sites. The rest of the world varies, I know. NewEgg.ca … Continue reading →

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Chrome OS, The New GNU/Linux Distro Accepted By OEMs, Retailers, Government and Consumers

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Robert Pogson

Combine state of the art hardware from Intel and optimized software from Google and what do you have? A big bite taken out of the Wintel pie: “Chrome OS represents a new form of computing," he said. "We are seeing … Continue reading →

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Everybody Loves Small Cheap Computers

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Robert Pogson

“According to IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms Topical Report, lower-end computers classified in either the "mainstream" category or the "value" the mainstream desktop PCs is expected to account for 46.9% of the market each by the year-end, while the top-end PCs … Continue reading →

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Extremadura Confirms Commitment to FLOSS

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Robert Pogson

I have been writing for years about the benefits of FLOSS including GNU/Linux and thin clients in education. Government usage is not that much different so this combination should be useful in government as well. Apparently Extremadura thinks so: “CIO … Continue reading →

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