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Looks potentially interesting and I might check it out. At first glance, a few caveats and potential deal breakers occurred to me from a non-technical perspecti
by imagine99 5y ago
Looks potentially interesting and I might check it out. At first glance, a few caveats and potential deal breakers occurred to me from a non-technical perspective:
- the 14-day trial (PoC'ing something like this in anything less than 8 weeks is just not something that happens in my experience, especially if upper management is involved and you still need to build the infrastructure around it)
- lack of lab licenses for free or cheap (I'd want to put that through its paces myself for a significant amount of time and dogfood it before recommending this to clients or moving over a large org)
- seeing 20 or 50 licenses min. purchase requirement is particularly disappointing when positioning yourself as a Citrix alternative. There is a ton of small outfits in niche industries out there with a requirement of 5 to 15 seats who might jump at this if it performs well.
- lack of attractive education and non-profit pricing which, again, might be a particularly thankful and interested target audience.
VDI is awesome, flexible and efficient if it performs well and is done right. Unfortunately in practice too often neither is the case. However the concept's potential still has a future if it sees further improvement and innovation. Cloud gaming, among others, shows that algorithms and tech stacks exist that can make this happen.