Post-holiday photo

Yesterday my holiday finished unfortunately. I spent one week on Madeira. A beautiful island with various nature, kind people and bad roads ;-).

Review: moka5 LivePC

Today I downloaded and reviewed LivePC for Windows and the bare metal version of LivePC.
moka5 pioneered the concept of LivePCs, originally known as virtual appliances, at Stanford, combining the full advantages of both thin-clients and PC computing. The advantages of our LivePC technology include:

• Mobility (take your PC with you)
• Security (spyware vanishes with reboot)
• Easy management (always up to date, automatically)

LivePCs allow a live, actively managed computer configuration to be shared across many machines distributed all over the world.

LivePC is a software solution about provisioning virtual machines to a VMware Player runtime engine. The LivePC Player connects to a library with prepped virtual machines that are usable in VMware Player. It is a kind of VMware ACE, but without the Windows host requirement and a central management platform.

The Windows version installs LivePC Player ona Windows platform. The bare metal version installs a stripped Linux with VMware Player included. The last one can be seen as a LivePC appliance.

The LivePC Player can be used for:

• connect the the moka5 library
• create new LivePC’s
• import existing VMware virtual machines

LivePC’s can be published to the moka5 library or even to your own webserver. Updates are automatically merged in the local cache, your the user always has the latest version.

If you are into the virtual evolution, sign up for the beta program and give it a try.

New SoftGrid prices as of August

Prices of the SoftGrid products will be cut by as much as 85%.

This is how it will be:

• SoftGrid Desktop Licenses: €32 / $38 (list)
• SoftGrid Terminal Server Licenses: €18 / $21 (list)
• SoftGrid Terminal Server Licenses will no longer be based on the concurrent number of users (as in all Microsoft products)
• SoftGrid ZeroTouch will be free and part of the Softgrid Server software.
• SoftGrid SMS Connector: Free (if you have other Softgrid licenses)

The Universal Desktop license will disappear: it’s either a Destop or a Terminal Server license. Softricity Software Assurance will disappear completely.

Microsoft is making this move to boost application virtualization in order to (amongst other things) make it easier to migrate to Windows Vista.

Read the original acticle at Thincomputing.net.