The most compelling reason to switch your traditional computer network system over to a thin client system is the dramatic cost savings involved. Sure, the switch to a new system will be reflected on your budget, but even those costs remain modest compared to the maintenance and upgrading of your current, traditional network. In-house studies have shown that, depending on the size of a network, the implementation of a thin client system came shave tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars from a technology budget over the first five years.

Where do the savings come from? On a traditional computer network system, the maintenance and upgrading of operating systems, applications, anti-virus, and hardware must occur repetitiously for each workstation on the network. In contrast, upgrades and maintenance work on a thin client system is done one time and in one central location – the server – and in a fraction of the time.

Furthermore, thin client computer systems also require less robust workstations than do traditional networks. Not only are these workstations cheaper to buy, they are also cheaper to own while maintaining a longer lifecycle. Since all hardware and software upgrades take place at the server level, these workstations require little attention throughout their lifecycle.