During the last months it has become very clear that the fight in the VDI space is on. Citrix and VMware have released new and better versions of their product and Microsoft stumbles behind with their MED-V ‘solution’.

Last February, around VMworld Europe 2009, VMware announced an open source version of their VMware View client. Now that VMware View with the long awaited PCoIP is on the horizon, VMware has released the VMware View Open Client 4.0 for the public beta. With this VMware is hoping to conquer a large number of thin client providers so many new devices will contain an out-of-the-box VMware View client.

Samsung is the first to take advantage of this new opportunity with the release of their new 930 DN 19″ LCD monitor with integrated PCoIP.

The VMware View Open Client 4.0 beta includes support for SSL tunneling, two-factor authentication with RSA SecurID and a Command Line Interface (CLI).

Unfortunately there is no support for:

• USB redirection
• Multiple desktop sessions
• Multimedia redirection

Related posts:

1. VMware launches View 4.0 beta
2. VMware announced Open Source desktop client for VMware View
3. VMware View client for iPad released
4. VMware View 4.0.1 released
5. VMware View with software Teradici PCoIP on the horizon?

Tags: View, VMware

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