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Thin clients mean less IT! Thick clients mean less IT! VDI means less IT! Citrix means less IT! Terminals services means less IT! Drupal/Wordpress means no

Thin clients mean less IT! Thick clients mean less IT! VDI means less IT! Citrix means less IT! Terminals services means less IT! Drupal/Wordpress means no more web devs! Ipads mean less IT! Mobile means less IT! Cloud means less IT! If anything, these things tend to create more IT jobs. Now we need another helpdesk guy to handle everyone's mobile devices, a MDM server, someone or run that, a better local wifi network, a more secure wifi network, etc etc.

nasalgoat 13y ago
That said, many of those things did actually result in "less IT" in the sense that fewer people can now run larger installs. For instance, I have a team of four people to run 400+ physical machines, whereas in 2000, I needed a team of ten or so to do a similar job.
- Piskvorrr 13y ago
  More precisely, "less IT for that one task, while the number of IT tasks grows ever larger".