Comments on: What Gael Did Next – Ulteo Online Desktop

By: wifi voip phone

wifi voip phone — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:23:32 +0000

Ulteo really is cool application, I have given it a try. I mostly like its seamless integration with Firefox. Thanks for sharing

By: MrCorey

MrCorey — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:23:51 +0000

That's exactly what they were planning. It worked on the sites where there were only the true thin clients, as they trained the floor managers in how to properly unplug them and plug in a new one (I am trying to withhold the sarcasm here, on the training part). With the PC's emulating thin clients, and so many new workstations in use (around 450), and the bandwidth requirements, they actually had to hire an on-site IT person for about 18 months. So, your supposition has been supported by evidence already. MrCorey's last blog post..Double Check that Hard Drive before you Toss It

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:42:09 +0000

On the one hand, that many thin clients is fantastic. If you get a problem, kill the client and restart it. On the other hand, that would put so many deskside engineers out of a job.

Then again, less messing around with customers. Decisions decisions….

By: MrCorey

MrCorey — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:56:08 +0000

Good thing.

~~The Devil~~My former employer serves all its apps to the clients. They acquired a building that had housed the same kind of business and took over the computers that were there, mostly Dell Optiplex workstations and Compaq Deskpro EN’s, all with CPU’s ranging between 700Mhz and 1.7Ghz and Hard drive space between 20GB and 40GB. The other centres ran thin clients. On these reasonably capable machines, they put a stripped version of Mandrake 8 with a Citrix client on it. They barely worked on that kind of demand. The hardest working part of the machine would have been the NIC.

Ulteo might be an interesting development for the mobile phone, if leveraged correctly.

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By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Weirdly, I recall a conversation with a friend of mine around 15 years ago. He was telling me that his lecturer on the computer course at university said that desktop PCs were pretty much dead, that everything would be an online app and you would only need to have it available when you wanted to use it.

And now the desktop PC is itself an online app. Good thing dumb terminals are a thing of the past, eh?

By: drew

drew — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:17:17 +0000

Yeah, the Goowy WebOS account I have, I mostly use as a backup contact list of email addresses and such. It does come in handy for those purposes. It does lack the web browsing but you can do email, calendar, AIM/Jabber, disk storage.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:45:51 +0000

Wow, possibly a new record for comments for between posting and next logging on

Drew – it’s not much use to people who travel with a laptop, but for those who prefer to travel light, or who get surprised while travelling light by the need to do some work it’s probably invaluable. And yeah, I wasn’t overly impressed by the need for Java, but I suppose it’s pretty much standard on most desktops, particularly in internet cafes.

Alison – they are working on other apps to cut down on the desktop, I saw they had OOWriter as a standalone app, a la Google Docs I guess, so potentially it could help with slow connections. And the last post thing seems to fail on some blogs, Drew’s for instance, not sure why.

Hari – yeah, seemed a bit odd to me but then if you are trying to access your company’s intranet while on the road, it would be useful. Or if you need to demonstrate an app. I suppose it cuts down on the need for VPN or stops people trying to use other company’s networks.

od – I saw a bit of a slow down myself, I think they have a lot of tweaking to do Odd that Opera doesn’t work well.

By: od

od — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:09:09 +0000

It seems that I couldn't type anything if I were to launch it on Opera. Worked well on Firefox. od's last blog post..The art of lying -

By: od

od — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:57:08 +0000

Nice. Pretty slow though for me. Gah. Comment sent from ulteo online desktop

By: hari

hari — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:52:22 +0000

I really have to wonder about the wisdom of having a web browser within an OS that is based on the browser.

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