{"id":1020,"date":"2011-10-12T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2012-10-17T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:18:02","slug":"the-death-of-the-pc-forbes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"The Death of the PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The head of computer operations for Reed Specialist Recruitment, an employment service with operations on three continents, Whetstone recently upgraded his company&#8217;s 6,000 desktop computers. Chief information officers order new Dells or HPs all the time. But the computers Whetstone brought in for his employees aren&#8217;t the traditional metal boxes that sit next to desks or under monitors. They are &#8220;virtual&#8221; computers. Each employee has a keyboard and a screen, but the processors making the calculations and deciding what color goes in each pixel are far away, inside a big computer at Reed&#8217;s main data center in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/1228\/technology-virtualization-vmware-wyse.html\">The Death of the PC &#8211; Forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is dated (12\/28\/2009) but interesting nonetheless.\u00a0\u00a0 Thin clients never quite die either.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of computer operations for Reed Specialist Recruitment, an employment service with operations on three continents, Whetstone recently upgraded his company&#8217;s 6,000 desktop computers. Chief information officers order new Dells or HPs all the time. But the computers Whetstone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization-2","tag-thin-client"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}