Zeus brokers virtual desktops
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| Available as software to run on Linux or as an appliance, the Zeus
| VDB costs $120 (GBP60) per concurrent user and bypasses the need for
| Citrix altogether, instead using RDP to access VMware-hosted desktops.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=8631
HP plans portable thin client
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| The Palo Alto, California-based vendor has refreshed its entire thin
| client line over the last six months, and now offers a range from
| the low-end t5125, a Linux box running the VIA Eden 400MHz
| processor and offering access to Citrix or Windows Terminal
| Services, but only limited peripheral support, up to the
| high-end t5720 (running Embedded XP) and t5725 (Debian Linux),
| both of which are on the AMD Geode NX 1500 1.0GHz processor.
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| The high-end boxes are full OSes and customizable, said Berridge.
| "Basically anything you can do on a desktop machine, you can do
| on these, except of course they have no local storage," he said.
| "You can run Adobe Acrobat, load OpenOffice and have a full
| browser with Java Virtual Machine capabilities, the only
| limitation being the capacity of the Flash on board, which
| is typically 512MB, though we also have a 1GB unit."
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F5D926CB-DD95-494D-8D57-F3D9F78DD12E
SWsoft adds cheaper intro to virtualization
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| SWsoft is working on partnerships to assure customers its software
| isn't disruptive, though. Linux sellers approve of the lightweight
| virtualization employed by Virtuozzo and have expressed some
| enthusiasm for the open-source project at its foundation, OpenVZ.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6178136.html
Related:
The Year of Virtualization
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| I think that Windows will continue to succumb to Linux in the data
| center, MySQL and Postgres will continue to win projects that once
| fell to Oracle and DB/2.
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http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/162110_p.htm
Virtualization: Linux's killer app
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| Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual
| Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning
| technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in
| keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft
| would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to
| support a virtual machine technology that can only open the
| door to Linux in the datacenter?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/19/08OPopenent_1.html
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