That old thing called "thin clients"

One of the questions that customers raise, when we speak "Thin Clients" is that the thin client concept has actually been around for quite a long time now. So, is this a fad or is there a larger story to this ?

The below article speculates on the same - and gives a perspective on this issue.
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3649031

Bottom line, and lesson for all of us really is that - we should not even be mentioning the term "thin clients" anymore, since the thin client is only one small component of a larger "Client Virtualization" story.