2009 May be the Year of Thin Clients, Too at Robert Pogson

I have already confirmed that 2009 is the year of GNU/Linux. It looks like its the year of the Thin Client, too. My dataset:

five of the top ten most popular whitepapers on desktop+OS on ZDnet are about thin clients
virtualization has reached a crescendo with thin clients being one of the major modes. India and Indonesia seem to be hotbeds.
while production of thin clients is only 2% of desktops, the long life makes them about 10% of PCs and the production is growing rapidly
IDC sees thin clients riding the wave of virtualization
thin clients are green
netbooks are forking with some OEMs trying to force more feature-bloat and higher prices but many smaller OEMs are cranking out GNU/Linux netbooks at ever lower prices. Thin clients should cost less than netbooks so the $700 thin client is on short time. If thin clients cost less they will sell faster.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.