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IBM, Citrix, and VMware are pushing the idea of providing desktops to users in the form of virtual machine-based remote Windows XP desktops instead of the traditional way of publishing a desktop session on a Terminal Server or Citrix Presentation Server. In this article, I'll take a brief look at the announcements from the past few weeks and then dig into the pros and cons of this architecture.

Some major investment firms have recently published reports indicating that Citrix will have to compete with a fairly new technology concept called a "bladed PC." In this article, I look at what bladed PCs are and how their use will affect Citrix.

This is the third article in the series about VMware and Citrix and Terminal Server technologies. In this article, I look ahead to what EMC's purchase of VMware could mean, and how future solutions could be relevant in the server-based computing world.

In pure Terminal Server environments, people will be better off building quad-processor servers that can each support 300-500 users instead of blades or 1U servers that can only support 50-200 users.