Thin Client: New Cost Savings?
Kurt M. Fanning · Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance · 2014
Information technology (IT) costs can be a major headache for cost managers. To cut costs, companies replaced desktop PCs with what are called thin clients: a software program, actual computer, or other device that relies on another computer to do most of the computing. While the expected cost savings didn't happen in all cases, the thin‐client model still achieved significant cost savings and became a large portion of IT spending. But all this has taken place over the past two decades, so why is there now a new interest now in using thin clients?