Re:How many times have we heard this before? (Score 1)

I actually work for a company that uses dumb terminals. We have 70+ locations spread out over Texas and Louisiana, most of which run entirely on the Neoware e140 brand. Setting up these dumb terminals is a snap (average 20-30 minutes) and having them log into the main server here in the home office to do their work ensures that the back-ups manage to snag all of the work that would otherwise be lost when a hard drive fails. Pretty much the only PC's in the entire company are given to the store managers, the programmers, and the tech desk; everything else runs off of these dumb terminals. Security is made much easier, but the potential for catastrophic failure becomes more evident when a server goes down. When that happens, anyone logged into that server ends up unable to work, or at least until they log back into one of the other 9. In the case of a (rare) massive failure, we lose all 70 stores until we can get up and going again. There are good and bad points to all. Nathan