VNC is Powerful, could it become like Citrix

[David Smith]

At 7:17 PM +0000 12/14/01, Christopher Koeber wrote:
>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!

If you have run a Winframe/Metaframe/Terminal Server you know how 
much very low level coding went into getting it to work, and it still 
doesn't work fully (in that many applications write either to c:\... 
or their installed application directory, both of which are no-no's 
in a shared user machine).   Oh the the reliance on DLL's in the 
system directory of the server means that you can only ever have one 
version of a MS product installed.

There is a really big leap between hacking into the graphics code, 
which is what VNC does, and rewriting the OS (BTW Citrix has a 
license to MS's source code or it wouldn't have been able to).
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David A. Smith
<smithd "at" blkbox.com>
The box said: "Needs Windows 98 or better," so I bought a Macintosh.
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