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Huh?
"Although systems from both Boundless and NCD contain the Java Virtual Machine and conform to the Java-centric NC reference profile, their Java capabilities are limited. "Java applications tend to require a lot of processing capabilities," says a spokeswoman for NCD, in San Jose, Calif. "The PC is the best system for running Java."
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Same article, Another Client:
"The role of thin clients is narrowing. They're being used primarily as terminal replacements in the retail, financial, and manufacturing industries. Freightliner Corp. in Portland, Ore., is using more than 1,000 NCD NCs to provide manufacturing employees with access to data and computer-aided design drawings residing on Unix and Windows NT servers."
On a negative note:
"What happened to NCs?
techweb.com
"William Tauscher:We have a customer . . . [where] the [chief information officer] dictated that his department put in the NCs, but he let them keep their PCs. When he walks through the department, they all jump on the NCs and when he goes past, they all go back to their PCs.
Darl McBride:This [the NC] is a [chief information officer] story, really, because the TCO [Total Cost of Ownership] sound bite plays at a [chief information officer] level, but as you go down to the implementation level, it breaks down." |
