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Another view of the virtualized desktop world

There has been a lot of noise in the past few weeks from companies like IBM, Citrix, and VMware pushing the idea of providing desktops to users in the form of virtual machine-based remote Windows XP desktops instead of the "traditional" way of publishing a desktop session on a Terminal Server or Citrix Presentation Server.

Citrix, IBM, and VMware used the momentum around VMworld to announce their view of the virtualized desktop world, calling it "IBM Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure." If you didn't read the press release, here's the short version:

IBM Servers [Blades or xSeries] + VMware Workstation + Citrix Application Delivery = Virtual "desktops" for users that are cheaper than regular desktops.(continue at source)

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