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DISTRIBUTORS ARE BEGINNING to get fat on thin clients.
During the last month, broad-line and technical distributors beefed up their line cards, and in some cases their own offices, with network computers (NCs) and related product. The moves signal a growing faith in a technology that corporate America has been predictably reluctant to embrace.
Network Computing Devices Inc. (NCD), Mountain View, Calif., signed Tech Data Corp., Clearwater, Fla., as the first national distributor of its WinCenter multiuser Windows NT software and Explora thin-client devices.
The deal bolsters Tech Data's thinclient line card, which also includes thinclient devices from IBM Corp., Wyse Technologies Inc., Boundless Technologies Inc., Sun Soft and Citrix Systems Inc.
"You're starting to see a lot more vendors coming to market," said...