Wall Street Journal covers the IBM Virtual Desktop
Category WSJ IBM Virtual Desktop
IBM Creates 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop
Sounds like a Citrix style implementation with the code actually running on the server. It's not eSuite, but it's the model that made sure eSuite wasn't successful i.e. thin terminals acting as display only devices, which was much better for most companies than the download everything and run slowly eSuite approach. It will be interesting to see if customers for this type of solution will choose to move from paying licensing costs to Microsoft over to IBM, or bypass both of them and move to the free alternatives that much of the IBM offering is based on. I know this week I have personally seen Mac users bypass Symphony on Mac, for OpenOffice Mac because it was faster, more functional and handled PPT files better. Certainly interesting times, with a possible sea change if Microsoft isn't successful with Windows 7.
The key compents are:
Notes, Sametime, Symphony - E-mail, Collaboration, UC, Desktop Productivity
Virtual Bridge VERDE - Desktop Virtualization
Ubuntu Linux - Host/Client OS
This article has a little more "how they do it" meat
Not sure if this is the IBM related site...I don't think it is.
Virtual client solution from IBM
IBM Creates 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop
Sounds like a Citrix style implementation with the code actually running on the server. It's not eSuite, but it's the model that made sure eSuite wasn't successful i.e. thin terminals acting as display only devices, which was much better for most companies than the download everything and run slowly eSuite approach. It will be interesting to see if customers for this type of solution will choose to move from paying licensing costs to Microsoft over to IBM, or bypass both of them and move to the free alternatives that much of the IBM offering is based on. I know this week I have personally seen Mac users bypass Symphony on Mac, for OpenOffice Mac because it was faster, more functional and handled PPT files better. Certainly interesting times, with a possible sea change if Microsoft isn't successful with Windows 7.
The key compents are:
Notes, Sametime, Symphony - E-mail, Collaboration, UC, Desktop Productivity
Virtual Bridge VERDE - Desktop Virtualization
Ubuntu Linux - Host/Client OS
This article has a little more "how they do it" meat
Not sure if this is the IBM related site...I don't think it is.
Virtual client solution from IBM
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