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From Lauraibm

Full Article: A True Test of HP's Green Commitment (Aug-07)

HP has recently spent $214m to acquire thin client vendor Neoware, which represents a major addition to HP’s growing portfolio of green products. Thin clients have been found to use 90% less energy than traditional desktop PCs; they also have the advantage of requiring fewer resources during production and pose less of an e-waste problem.

HP has said that thin clients represent an important component in an overall computing strategy, but the question is how big is the component they are representing? The answer to this will be a huge test of HP’s green credentials, if the corporation encourage major corporate accounts to move to thin clients we will see a significant step towards an industry wide shift for thin client computing. However, if HP continues to push PCs as the default solution for firms then they will be seen as not so serious about the environment as they say.