On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:11 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 02/22/2011 04:42 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. I'd imagine none of us have the time to investigate this > > but I just took a quick look at EyeOS (http://www.eyeos.org). It is an > > open source cloud desktop solution. Version 2 was very slow and buggy > > but version 1 was amazingly fast. > > > <snip> > > I don't remember if it was eyeos, but we looked at some of these "web > desktop integration" solutions a while back. > > It's not the same experience as having a "real" desktop. > > Yes, they've managed to write some office-style apps and email clients > and other things. > > But that does not truly duplicate a bona-fide native desktop. > > Many of the clients we pursue have very industry-specific software they > need to run. > It needs to run the same whether we put it on their machines or ours in > the cloud. > > With good remote access there's no retraining of users because they are > using the same software they've been using for years. Just accessing it > remotely. > > > In the end, we opted to not go the WDI approach and instead looked for > good remote access technologies such as x2go that gives us the > flexibility to offer nearly any type of local/remote/cloud solution for > the client. <snip> That is exactly why we chose X2Go instead. However, what caught my eye (no pun intended) was how responsive the video and sound were - significantly better than what we are doing in X2Go. So, in the openness of open source, I wonder what we can learn from what they have done to improve X2Go - John
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