Today's commercial operating systems require ever-powerful hardware and memory to keep pace with resource-hungry applications, all of which demand frequent upgrades to end-user and server hardware. Consider this: instead of buying new hardware with new licenses and support contracts, why not have the user workstations reinstalled with Linux and let the server do all the work? In effect, the old hardware acts as a 'dumb' terminal connecting to an existing server installed (for example) with Microsoft terminal server. Thus giving users all the features and benefits of Windows without the need to replace user workstations.