An accelerated growth is foreseen for thin clients, as current shipments worldwide have risen in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGRs) of 22.8% for units and 12.2% for revenue in the last 4 years. Sales have doubled in the United States and more than tripled in Europe and Asia.

Green Energy  - Thinclient Power/Energy Savings (May 16,2007)
Neoware, Inc. (Nasdaq:NWRE), a leading provider of thin client hardware, announced that its devices that are cost-effective alternatives to desktop and laptop PCs, can help companies reduce computing-related energy costs by up to 90%.

Go Thin to Go Green - Green market (April 04,2007)
German Research company Fraunhofer found that PCs use as much as twice as much electricity as a thin client-server system. "While PCs consume about 85 watts on average, thin clients including their server get by with 40 to 50 watts. Reducing the amount of power used by the estimated 10 million PCs in UK businesses could reduce carbon emissions output by 485,000 tons a year, as well as saving £78 million in electricity costs.

From a systems management standpoint environments are standardised and costs for such systems can be considerably lower than for traditional PC environments. The advantages of the thin-client model are numerous. Please follow this link to read for some common benefits that your organisation might find in Thin-Client computing.