Win4VDI becomes VERDE

Our VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) product is the same as ourWin4VDI product but with support for Linux guests. When we developed the MS-free capabilities in our new product, we called it VERDE rather than “Win4VDI for Linux Guests”, because we wanted to emphasize the fact that there was no “WIN” in the new solution.

Now that VERDE has become so popular, eclipsing Win4VDI, we are moving to fold the Win4VDI capability of running Windows desktops into the VERDE solution. Now, instead of having to decide between VERDE and Win4VDI, you just need to deploy VERDE and decide how many, if any Windows sessions you will host on VERDE versus Linux guest sessions.

There is no difference in price between Windows or Linux guest sessions. There is no need to define a set number of Windows or Linux guests. You can mix and match and change on the fly in any way you want to allocate session between Windows and Linux guests as long as the total number of concurrent sessions is equal to or less than the total number of concurrent session licensed.

Folding Win4VDI into the VERDE brand makes sense. Users need to be able to seamlessly allocate resources between Linux guests and Windows guests and this move helps them do that while reducing any confusion from having two product names.

We have been getting lots of questions about what is the difference between Win4VDI and VERDE. So, to be clear, the answer is, none. They are the same thing. And, now they have the same name.

We will be synchronizing web pages and collateral over the next couple of weeks – but with the introduction of our new  VERDE Documentation Suite, we have begun the process of assimilating Win4VDI into VERDE.

Tagged as: Desktop environment, Linux, Open Source