This white paper examines the barriers to affordable technology for schools and reviews thin-client technology as one solution to the problem. The idea behind thin-client computing is simple: centralize computing power, storage, applications, and data on servers (powerful computers) and provide users with an inexpensive client device that is easy to install with all maintenance and updates handled from the server.
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