Trendwatcher says HP's deal to get Neoware represents major addition of green products. He notes that thinclients use around 90% less energy than traditional desktop pc.
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by James Murray, BusinessGreen
August 2007
A True Test of HP's Green Commitment
Perhaps HP is going to lead the shift towards thin client computing after all.
Barely 72 hours after I posted suggesting HP's claims that it was hugely committed to promoting green, energy efficient thin client computing looked a bit over-blown the company has gone and splashed out $214m to acquire thin client vendor Neoware. Perhaps the HP exec I had been talking to knew something I didn't.
Either way the deal represents a major addition to HP's growing portfolio of green products. Thin clients have no moving parts and work by simply providing users with a connection to applications hosted on a server -- as such they can use around 90 percent less energy than traditional desktop PCs, require far fewer resources during the production process and pose less of an eWaste problem.
It is no exaggeration to claim that when combined with a well managed datacentre to host end user applications thin clients are greener in every way when compared with traditional PCs.
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