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Article: Thin client shipments surge.
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- Information Age (London, UK)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2005
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Annual shipments of thin client devices are expected to top the 1 million mark in EMEA during 2005, according to IDC, after robust growth in the first half of the year.
The IT market watcher says that thin client hardware shipments increased by 39% in the six months to 30 June compared to the corresponding period a year earlier. IDC analyst Chris Ingle says the most important factor in the growth was that major businesses and government institutions were assessing the manageability and security of their desktop estates.
"Over the past two years these businesses have carried out evaluations of thin client as an alternative to traditional PCs and have ...