VMware delivers personalized desktops on wheels
VMware unveils an open source virtual desktop client, designed to provide users with access to their personal desktop regardless of the device or location.
Have desktop, will travel.
VMware unveiled Tuesday its open source virtual desktop client VMware View Open Client, designed to provide users with constant access to their personal desktop on almost any device.
VMware View Open Client aims to provide organizations with the ability to host user desktops within their respective datacenters and allow their users to access their personal desktops from a variety of devices at any given time.
Jocelyn Goldfein, general manager of VMware's Desktop business unit, said in a statement:
Now we are sharing our source code in VMware view Open Client so vendors can easily optimize devices to create the best virtual desktop solutions. As a result, IT is able to reduce the total cost of providing desktop environments by allowing low-end or less-expensive devices that provide the same feature set as higher-end devices.
The VMware View Open Client is offered up through the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.