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Re: VNC



guy keren wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Mack wrote:
>
> > Whenever someone clicks his 'MS'button on his desktop, the next free PC
> > is allocated to him and sent to his display.  If people don't keep it open
> > for no reason, you can probably cut the number of your MS pc's by half.
> > Most people will not keep it open for no reason, since it will waste their
> > memory while being left iconified instead of closed.  Its a large bitmap.
>
> well, you're being ultimatly optimistic. when people have a window open,
> they do not close it just "to be nice to everyone else".
>
> but, the proper solution comes (or shall come) when NT will be able to
> support multiple desktops properly. this can be done in two ways:
>
> 1. install a product that adds this support (soemthing with a name similar
>    to cyberix.
>
> 2. wait till NT 5.0, where microsoft is said to add cyberix's technology
>    and thus support multi desktops directly in their product. THEN it
>    might be usefull.
>

 There are two commercial solutions for remote connection to an NT.
I don't know if they support Unix. One is NTerprise which I've had the
displeasure of using. It's slow, and bugful (and ofcourse it runs NT).
There's Cytrix which is supposed to be better (Microsoft licensed their
technology after saying they had their own to get the price down). Hydra
(NT 5.0 remote connection) is supposed to be based on Cytrix. I've
heard some pretty good things of Hydra, but then again as long as it's
in the labs it usually is good.

> (p.s. someone at work told me this, i've not see it myself).
>