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Still very big, I would say. You are correct about startups, but just go to any enterprise and you will find desktops everywhere. Enterprises generally don’t li
by stingraycharles 9y ago
Still very big, I would say. You are correct about startups, but just go to any enterprise and you will find desktops everywhere. Enterprises generally don’t like the idea of company laptops with sensitive information being stolen, and - from what I can see - thin clients + datacenters is very popular there.
- joncrane 9y agoOK. For the record, I worked at a government agency, at a GSE (both as a contractor, my company and the client both provided laptops only), and at a Fortune 100 company in the timeframe I quoted. The sensitive information leakage thing is protected via full disk encryption in all those cases.
- rbanffy 9y agoStill, some organizations are concerned enough with their data that they'll not risk having it outside the building regardless of how well encrypted it is when the machine is turned off.
- bostik 9y agoSame for us, and we're just 100 heads. At least once a year I have to explain to the auditors that no, we do not clamp our desktop boxes down. Every system is set up with full-disk encryption. Auditor: "What happens if someone steals one of those boxes?" Me: "We lose perhaps 1k worth of kit. An annoyance. Someone has to spend time reinstalling their setup. But the data on the disk is illegible garbage. Useless." Auditor: "Have you documented that as an accepted risk?"
- dbuder 9y agoSomeone is going to get burnt by a rogue employee.
- dagw 9y agoI work at a fairly large civil engineering company (~12k employees) and we're going 100% laptop starting this year. Personally I and many of my colleagues think it's a bad decisions.