Austin Childrens Museum Goes Thin
Summary
In addition to the terminal, keyboard and mouse, they support local printing, Smart cards, Bluetooth, wireless, and more. Austin, TX, December 07, 2007 --( So what is Thin?In addition to the terminal, keyboard and mouse, they support local printing, Smart cards, Bluetooth, wireless, and more.” Pam Paine “Executive Assistant and Board Liaison” at the Austin Children’s Museum said other factors drove the Museum’s decision, like, 99.999% uptime for all her employees, Thin Clients have no moving parts, and can’t get viruses or Spyware; however, Paine went on to say… “cost is a factor we have to consider every day, and the cost of buying and maintain our own servers was just too much; in addition, we were constantly paying to replace hard drives and to remove viruses and Spyware from our Fat Clients (PC’s).From the Museum’s perspective, we increase the uptime of our system, reduce our costs significantly, improve the security of our network, while doing our part for the environment.” Bowling also said that his company is talking to the museum about creating a “technology” exhibit.In addition to the terminal, keyboard and mouse, they support local printing, Smart cards, Bluetooth, wireless, and more.”Pam Paine “Executive Assistant and Board Liaison” at the Austin Children’s Museum said other factors drove the Museum’s decision, like, 99.999% uptime for all her employees, Thin Clients have no moving parts, and can’t get viruses or Spyware; however, Paine went on to say… “cost is a factor we have to consider every day, and the cost of buying and maintain our own servers was just too much; in addition, we were constantly paying to replace hard drives and to remove viruses and Spyware from our Fat Clients (PC’s).From the Museum’s perspective, we increase the uptime of our system, reduce our costs significantly, improve the security of our network, while doing our part for the environment.”Bowling also said that his company is talking to the museum about creating a “technology” exhibit.