“As users decide whether to go through the expense and
aggravation of upgrading their desktop PCs to make them suitable
for Windows 2000 Professional, thin-client vendors are using the
opportunity to press their argument for abandoning the ‘fat’ client
model.”
” ‘It looks to me that an awful lot of people are going to have
to upgrade or replace their [desktop] systems to support Windows
2000, and why would you upgrade the machine to a heavier OS
when the trend is … [to move] things to servers?’ said Dan
Kuznetsky, an analyst at International Data Corp…”
“…for large corporations with less powerful machines running
Windows 9x, there is another option: Using Windows 2000 on the
server and converting the existing desktops into semi-thin clients.
…the consensus that most IT shops will wait as much as a year and
a half to adopt Windows 2000 will give these Web-based applications
time to take hold.”
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