<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peyeps@iserv.net">peyeps@iserv.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ran across this at Infoworld:<br>
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<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/print/87066" target="_blank">http://www.infoworld.com/print/87066</a><br>
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"While a business might have decided to run Windows XP for the past seven<br>
or eight years without upgrading, the desktop hardware that was originally<br>
installed has been replaced one or two times. In most cases, this means<br>
Microsoft has sold you one or two more OEM desktop licenses with your new<br>
hardware, even if you're not using them to run Vista. If Microsoft's<br>
Windows XP licensing agreement had allowed it to be virtualized and VDI<br>
had been mature in 2001, you could be running the same full XP license<br>
today that you bought then without spending a penny on additional<br>
operating system licensing in the meantime. That's obviously not good for<br>
Microsoft, and VECD is its answer to prevent this from happening in the<br>
future."<br>
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This made me stop and think. If you are running a server farm servicing<br>
thin clients with a Microsoft Windows desktop. Buying perpetual desktop<br>
licenses for however many users you are servicing, and running on a<br>
virtual machine that "never changes", running on top of Linux using VM<br>
Ware does make sense, if you don't need to depend on Microsoft's client.<br>
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I have to admit that I don't know what open source software is available<br>
that will allow you to run a remote windows desktop from Linux. I do know<br>
it is possible to use Webex to do it.</blockquote><div><br>What U describe is Ulteo OpenVirtualDesktop(OVD). <a href="http://www.ulteo.com">http://www.ulteo.com</a>. Mixed Win/Lin apps delivered to thin client.<br><a href="http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/content/search?SearchText=ulteo&x=0&y=0">http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/content/search?SearchText=ulteo&x=0&y=0</a><br>
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