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["Zieba, Pawel" <pawel.zieba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From my experience I can say that for desktop environment and Windows
legacy application the only way is to move them to virtual environment. I
would advise to re-use cloud services (what we are currently evaluating
within Capgemini), like Desktop-on-Demand, Application-on-Demand.

For those, who need to host everything locally, there are technologies like
Citrix, VMWare and many others. But expensive. Both with money and effort.

For server side, I would recommend leaving Exchange server behind for other
technologies (both on-premise and as a service). The choice is quite good.
And if you look around carefully, you may even find a good SaaS solution
with on-premise servers. You just need to be open for a change.

Again: making Ubuntu work with 5-7 years old technology (just because it is
already there) is not innovative. I would even call it a step back. It's
like buying Ferrari, then changing the engine to old and rusty one, because
you are not allowed to drive more than 35 MPH anyways... If you buy
Ferrari, you change the roads you are driving on, not the engine, you go to
a race track, to be able to use full power of the car.

Yes, some of current issues can be solved during this discussion, but the
question is "is this the goal of this forum"?

Pozdrawiam,
Regards,
Pawel
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On 7 November 2012 11:59, <it@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello
>
> > Actually I hope to get feedback from people using VMware or
> >RedHat's VDI or any other cloud solution.
>
>
> I had to put together a legacy solution for MS Office and some software
> that is not (yet) working on Ubuntu (pdf-editing, remote database access).
> As I have little knowledge in providing virtual machines 'in the cloud' I
> decided to run a headless Virtualbox with an installed Windows. For the
> terminal service I choosed TSplus because they have reasonable prices and
> it fits all my use cases.
>
> I think it could be done better, but it does its job.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
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