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The Statistics
- The first true thin client marketed as an alternative to PCs appeared in 1995
- Network bandwidth today (1000Mbps) is 100000 times that of the 1980s (9600bps)
- Estimated total development cost of Linux Distribution is US $10.8bn (£6.8bn) (Fedora report)
- Approximately 300 million desktop PCs are shipped every year (IDC)
- The lifetime cost of each corporate PC is around £2,000 (Computing)
- A third of business computers in the UK are left on overnight, costing £300m a year in extra electricity bills, while half of the corporate computers in the US are left on overnight, costing $2.8bn extra a year (The Register)
- PCs worldwide consume about 80 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, two-thirds of which is wasted, translating to $5.4 billion of energy waste each year (Verdiem)
- Top three IT devices for carbon emissions are PCs/monitors, data centers, and fixed-line telecommunications systems, in that order. PCs and monitors alone contribute 40% of total carbon emissions, data centers around 23%.
- Thin Clients consume up to 90% less electricity compared with PCs
- Hardware is just 8% of an organisation's IT cost structure, 71% comes from operations and support including user self support (Siemens Business Service 2007)
- 33% of larger companies and 34% of small companies will utilize cloud computing in the next 12 months (Hosting.com, Feb 2009)
