Despite lackluster success thus far, Sun Microsystems is forging ahead to supplant full-fledged PCs with stripped-down machines called thin clients.Sun has hoped for years that schools, businesses and even individuals would bypass PCs, which have lots of computing power but are crash-prone and difficult to manage in large groups. Thin clients leave the heavy computational lifting to a high-powered centralized server, Sun's area of expertise, and thus channel technology spending toward Sun and not Intel and Microsoft.
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