Thinclient servers

[dhicks]

This is what the Apollo project is doing and the 'tech prveview' is currently available for XenDesktop. If you watch the first video that I posted above you will see how this exact technology is used to run Vista with full Aero and do CAD. The Google Earth demo is amazing too!

 

Ah! Thanks, worth a look - I'll have to wait until I get home to watch the video.

 

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David Hicks

[eean]

I've just watched (Video) Apollo technology for 3D professional graphics - Derek Thorslund on the Citrix website. Talk about amazing!

It does look good.

My concern, though, is that first they're talking about using these integrated graphics special clients. So you think "great, I'll upgrade all my clients to this". But at the end they're talking about making "further improvements to the clients" (I'm presuming that means new hardware... again). Above, people were claiming that a client could last 10-20 years. But to keep everything up to date, it's not just a case of buying a new server but actually buying new clients. Kinda defeats a main postive for TC.

How many people have clients which will even support Vista, and what about the next thing?