Re: RDi and Linux

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is definitely an interesting way to go to get Windows apps on a Linux
desktop.  I wonder how many instances of WDSC could be supported on a single
server.

On the same note, I found this feature for VirtualBox the other day that
works for scenarios where Linux is your host OS and Windows is the guest VM
on the *same* machine (i.e. no server required):
http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/149

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Luke Gerhardt <lgerhardt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 5 for me.  I concur with whoever else mentioned iSeries Navigator as
> well.  I'd dearly love to not be shackled to M$ any longer.
>
> No one has mentioned (that I noticed anyway) using some product such as
> 2X Application Server to host RDi/WDSCi.  I tried a limited version of
> that software with Office 2003 some months back, I believe, and it
> worked flawlessly from what I could tell.  I hosted Office 2003 on my XP
> desktop, and installed the Linux 2X client in a VM.  From there, I could
> launch any program I hosted from the XP machine: notepad, Office 2003, I
> think I even tried Visual Studio.  With that kind of infrastructure in
> place, could we not place WDSCi on a server somewhere and connect to it
> using the 2X client (which I believe was available for
> Windows/Linux/Mac)?  I think 2X even allowed you to specify how many
> users could run the hosted program at any given time (to help deal with
> any potential per-seat licensing issues).
>
> Also, the limited version of 2X was fully-functional, but allowed no
> more than 5 concurrent connections (which could potentially handle most
> small development teams' needs, right?).
>
> Am I missing something major here, or could this be at least a temporary
> answer until IBM realizes that making this product run everywhere
> Eclipse does should have been a given from day 1?
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