Prague, September 11, 2015 – The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) thin client market faced its third consecutive quarter of negative growth in Q2 2015, reaching the lowest volume in five years. Shipments contracted 17.7% year on year to 385,000 units, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by global IT market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). (TZ)
Interestingly, the decline in the Western European thin client market was stronger than during the financial crisis in 2009, dropping 19.2% in Q2 2015 from the same period in the previous year. Despite low oil prices, the fragile economic growth in the euro zone was not able to provide sufficient additional incentive for IT hardware upgrades or new purchases.
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