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Pano Logic gives VMware case of VDS 2.0

Pooper Scooper

Windows only 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 13:55 GMT

Stop

Fuck that.

Mike Laverick

Annoying Post 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 15:33 GMT

I mean why would you want to use Linux. Windows Rocks, man!

[Seriously, isn't there any moderation on Reg any more...?]

davcefai

@ Mike Laverick 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 19:41 GMT

You have a good point. How else would asinine comments like yours slip through.

Samuel Bayliss

What are they smoking!!! 

Posted Wednesday 16th April 2008 00:21 GMT

Stop

"Pano's solution to the unnecessary desktop software is a 100% hardware client that has no CPU, no memory, no operating system, and no software, so it requires zero maintenance and has no security risks. Combined with server-based virtualization, Pano delivers a superior Windows experience."

Hmm... I can't believe they have implemented this without a CPU, memory and software... Unless they built a thin client in an ASIC/FPGA... but that would be stupid... what a pile of marketing bunkum.

stizzleswick

Re that same quote: 

Posted Wednesday 16th April 2008 12:18 GMT

Coat

"Pano's solution to the unnecessary desktop software [...] a superior Windows experience."

By my lights, Windows IS unnecessary desktop software, and just about anything is superior to experiencing it...

Tuxedo and top hat, please...

B Candler

Hardware only... 

Posted Wednesday 16th April 2008 13:02 GMT

Go

It's conceivable. You can get off-the-shelf USB->VGA adapters, and there are proprietary schemes for encapsulating USB messages in ethernet frames or IP datagrams. I don't know if any of those have been integrated down to the chip level yet. If it's over IP then you'll need at least a DHCP client, which most likely means a small embedded processor.

But in any case, I'm not sure I fancy running all that down an ASDL line...