"Virtualization giant VMware this week announced a new
open source version of its virtual desktop software, dubbed VMware
View Open Client. Licensed under the LGPL, the open source virtual
desktop software and its source code will be available, primarily
to VMware partners, to spur development of supporting virtual
desktop software.
"While virtual desktop, whereby virtualization is used to create
virtual instances and thin clients in place of traditional desktop
machines, is still fairly new in the enterprise, we've been
wondering when virtualization would sway back to open source for
some time."
