Daily Archive: March 18, 2008

Offline VDI

VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs.  We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...

How many of your projects don’t succeed?

I’ve long known that a significant number of projects fail and that even more don’t succeed and I’ve read plenty of books that try to dig into why.   Oft cited are poor requirements, poor customer engagement etc but I liked this snipit that seems to sum up my experience: The...

Windows needs to be the best application delivery platform

I long thought that Microsoft should have focussed more on making Windows the best possible platform for the delivery of applications, regardless of whether they were developed on the Microsoft platform or not.  That’s what enterprises want, we think of the desktop largely as a way to get applications to...