* Nobody uses windows terminal server for anything serious, because of its reputation for security holes (which may or may not be outdated, but y'know, "java is slow" etc etc).
* Nobody likes Citrix, even (or particularly) when they use it every day. The amount of compromises and hoops that app developers have to consider to deploy on it, is significant.
> Nobody uses windows terminal server for anything serious, because of its reputation for security holes (which may or may not be outdated, but y'know, "java is slow" etc etc).
Entire companies run on remote desktop. It's the industry standard, at least here in Germany. I'm working with a lot of enterprise customers and I never heard about particular security concerns with RDP. If anything, the protocol has an excellent security track record.
135 acute non-specialist trusts (including 84 foundation trusts)
17 acute specialist trusts (including 16 foundation trusts)
54 mental health trusts (including 42 foundation trusts)
35 community providers (11 NHS trusts, 6 foundation trusts, 17 social enterprises and 1 limited company)
10 ambulance trusts (including 5 foundation trusts)11
7,454 GP practices12
853 for-profit and not-for-profit independent sector organisations, providing care to NHS patients from 7,331 locations13
Virtual desktops are a whole different ball of horror. Sometimes giving everyone a plain old PC is a ton cheaper than figuring out how to troubleshoot the super expensive nightmare server that has to handle the load of replacing everyone's PCs.
