Thin clients were a common hardware device in the 1990s that were used as secure terminals for accessing centralized servers via a local network. With the lowering of PC costs, the demand for client-terminal network solutions started diminishing. However, as the technology architecture in the 2000s shifted back to a centralized server model, a new opportunity existed in the cloud computing market. A US Private Equity Firm saw a unique opportunity to acquire WYSE, a manufacturer of thin clients, out of the Koos Group, and to turn the business into a cloud network solution provider. Today, after being acquired by Dell, WYSE remains an industry-leading cloud-computing solution.