> VNC s excellent, well, at least in my opinion. What I am wondering > is if VNC could become like Citrix, allowing multiple users to > connect to a single windows machine. This would make VNC great, > wouldn't it? Anyone's opinion is greatly valuable!
In terms of speed, I think one day VNC will match the Citrix client in terms of speed. When Citrix developed Winframe (basically a multiuser version of NT 3.51), the best modem speed was 28k. So, the made sure their protocol would squeeze down that wire. Funnily enough, MS wrote Terminal Server a few years later (NT4 multiuser) but AFAIK their protocol (RDP?) is too fat to squeeze down at 56k line. I think that XP workstation also uses RDP so I wonder if they've improved it. As for getting "Citrix for free" with VNC, I don't think you're going to get it for Windows unless someone rewrites the underlying OS. Unix, well, that's a different story but until it runs Office <sigh> it's going to be a minority market. Sad, I know, but true in the main. As WINE, Win2Lin and Lindows develops, it will be very interesting to see how these ideas take off. Have a huge *nix box that ran windows apps without needing the dreaded NT CALs would be incredably cool and would save me a mint on licencing. One question with the VNC/Citrix thing - a citrix client opens up it's own connection and the user doesn't need to know display numbers. Is this what ppl where hoping for with VNC? Just a few thoughts, Later Richard --------------------------------- Richard Harris Environment IT Tel: 0115 977 4509 --------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
