Shame it's the same day as a major Sun VDI event
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If you’ve got ‘Virtualise Desktops’ on your to-do list for 2010, you might want to hold your horses a minute, because we’ve got something that might make that project a little more pleasant. On 18 Feb at 11am GMT we’ve got the project leads from a 5,000 strong desktop virtualisation project joining us in our studio. They come …
I'm pretty sure this is the Hyper-V deployment that Microsoft actually gave away to the client, and paid for the consultancy to support the deployment, and also paid 30k for the media hype around it... Oh and did I mention it isn't anywhere near complete or fully functional.
Not that I'm against this in any way shape or form, I like variety, what I do not like is the big MS marketing wallet coming down and forcing clients in to a pricing argument versus what they actually need to deliver a successful project.
My $0.02
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"Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics and Neil Sanderson from Microsoft. "
Thank you. Headline should be "Yet another Microsoft advertisement!"
Hyper-V is as efficient as Terminal Server was in 1990, supporting even 5 simultaneous users/"virtual desktops" on one PC, so they are using 1000 PCs for this? Who pays the licenses?
Standard PC on Linux could support 100 users without any virtualisation and you'd need only 50 of those to do same job. 5 to 10 if you buy real hardware and just one if you use a mainframe.
(True and tried thing, 2000 virtual machines and a couple of users in each, on IBM's mainframe, about 2005 or so. No sweat at all for server.)