http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39175484,00.htm
November 30, 2004, 11:50 GMT
The car hire firm says its has cut hardware and maintenance costs
dramatically by migrating 1,500 rental stations to thin clients
running Linux
Car hire firm Europcar International has migrated thousands of PCs
across Europe from Windows fat clients to Linux thin clients, lowering
both its hardware and maintenance costs.
The car hire firm has saved on hardware and maintenance costs by
migrating its 1,500 stations to thin clients running Linux, but Stefan
Ostrowski, the CIO of Europcar, said that while migrating to Linux
thin clients has saved them money, but it would not have been as cost
effective for them to migrate fat clients to Linux.
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