[Info-vax] Could XRDP be the next graphical interface for VMS?

[Dirk Munk]

I recently had a discussion about VDI. If you don't know what it is, VDI 
is a virtual desktop PC on a server, and you can connect to it from a 
PC, or a thin client, or a tablet, or... It is a very expensive way to 
get the functionality you want.

The communication between server and client uses the same protocol as 
with Windows Terminal Server. It is comparable to X-Windows, but of 
course it is different.

In the Unix world there is a project called XRDP to give Unix servers 
the same kind of interface, so you can connect to a Unix server as if it 
were a Windows Terminal Server.

I guess this could be the best way for VMS as well, no need for special 
drivers and software on PC's, just standard Windows protocols. Always a 
good selling point!

You can find more about XRDP here:

< http://www.xrdp.org/ >