A well thought out Datamation article entitled, “Top Five Thin Client Hardware Vendors“,  by Jeff Vance, resonates with our thinking, more specifically in the last paragraph of the last page, “Finally, while Apple has never claimed to be a thin client vendor, the iPad could well be the pioneering thin client for consumers.

As CEOs begin to spend again on IT, they’re also looking for offerings to keep their costs down, which is creating opportunities for desktop virtualization vendors, according to analysts.

We think the timing for this important release couldn’t be better.

Further fueling the interest in zero-client solutions is the escalating costs of deploying and managing PCs, now estimated to be in the range of $4,000 to $6,000 per year, according to Gartner and IDC. Those same research companies estimate that a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) can save upwards of 70 percent over the support and maintenance costs of desktop PCs. Those are numbers that are sure to attract the attention of C-suite executives.