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Ubuntu + IBM = Choice Corporate Linux Desktop?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Dec 5, 2008

“IBM pulls this trick up by using the old thin-client approach.
Instead of having a full-out desktop on every desk, users have
computers that pick up their desktop applications using Virtual
Bridges’ VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment)
virtualization software.

“Even old Linux hands may not recognize the Virtual Bridges
name, but they will know its products. Virtual Bridges is the
company behind Win4Lin, one of the first and best of the Windows on
Linux virtualization programs.”


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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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