Nice article about Ulteo on Computerworld !

Please note that the article was somewhat ambiguious about our relationship with the big virtualization guys and maybe we did not clarify this enough during the intervie.

Actually customers/integrators/cloud companies have the option to run Uteo work with Citrix, VMWare or Microsoft for example, by leveraging their hypervisor/VDI infrastructure and Terminal Services (from Microsoft in that case). We want the OVD (Open Virtual Desktop) to be open and able to be integrated in most current and future architectures.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9151139/Linux_Windows_or_both_Doesn_t_matter_to_virtual_desktop_vendor_Ulteo

It has been a while since we wrote our last post on our blog, but after our official 2.0 launch we have been somewhat overwhelmed with activity. This is good !

We wish a very good year to all of you as well and we are excited to see the interest in Ulteo and the community growing in many places in the world.

What a better way to start a year by giving new exciting opportunities. And Ulteo is offering a new opportunity since we are hiring ! Check the details here.

Also if you have questions or want to drop a message, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us via the different ways we have now in place, including twitter (http://twitter.com/Ulteo)

Thierry Koehrlen

We did it ! Our v2.0 is freely available today from our homepage.

It is the results of tons of hard work from the Ulteo developers team, of many product suggestions from our community, of relentless testing from dozen of beta testers organizations.  I’ll do a separate post on our beta program that has worked wonderfully and all the beta testers who deserve a special thank you.

Here is the press release: Ulteo OVD 2.0

Now it’s launch time ! Please share the news !
Thierry Koehrlen

Install this new version on your server by using the online installation procedure, or install everything (host OS + OVD) from our ISO DVD image. New in 2.0: deliver all your Linux and Windows applications plus users’ data to a friendly web portal page in addition to the traditional desktop. Don’t wait any longer…

Ulteo attented the Open World Forum (OWF) taking place last week in Paris, gathering more than 1500 persons from about 30 countries, interested by the open source eco system and ways to make it grow.

Part of this exciting event was the Open Innovation Awards, an international competition of open source start-ups. Ulteo was fortunate enough to be selected as one of the 20 nominees. This pre-selection allowed us to pitch a panel of 15 international open source experts (Venture Capitalists, open source projects CEO like Mark Shuttleworth, public organizations, integrators, bloggers, etc.) And on Friday Oct. 2nd at the end of the OWF, the jury announced the 5 winners, including Ulteo. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to experimentations by Prabhu Ramamoorthy and the nice work of Phil Lavigna, everyone can now use Ulteo OVD in the clouds with Amazon EC2. Just watch the two video tutorials at  http://www.ulteoadmin.com/! Note: the EC2 Ulteo OVD image will run only on EC2 USA. If you plan to use it on EC2 EU, you have to register the image in EC2 EU. In that case, please let us know so we can post the news here.

Gaël (gduval -AT- ulteo -DOT- com)

We hope you had an awesome summer and have some goals set for the fall! After all, goals help to keep us on track. Speaking of goals, Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) v1.0 has been going global. Thank you all for your support!

We’ve been busy developing the Ulteo OVD beta for our 2.0 release that you can try very soon as a beta tester.
The key feature in this release is the ability to deliver applications either on a full desktop in the web-browser, or start each application in a dedicated browser window. We want to do this by allowing you to click on a link for a web page or a document in a centralized folder. This is very common in corporate portal/intranet today.

And in case you’re wondering, we still support both Linux and Windows applications.

We are now looking for enterprise users who can beta test our product and provide feedback. We want to build this product around your needs. Our goal is to have a stable production version by the end of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

“UlteoAdmin” is a new and nice community website started by Phil Lavigna that presents information and tutorial on how to use Ulteo in several videos. Worth a look at! Gaël.

We have released OVD 1.0.1, that is a security update (sanitization to fix XSS vulnerability), and added a “Translations” paragraph to the download page so users can download the up to date XML source of all our documentations, translate it and contribute it back.

Following many requests from our customers who wanted to test the OVD as a VM on an hypervisor, we have release a very easy to install version of the Open Virtual Desktop as an ISO file that can be used to burn a DVD media. Just boot that DVD and you can either install a Session Manager, one or more Application Server(s), or even both on the same machine! No need to worry about anymore with the host OS, that DVD image will install everything, including the host OS. At the moment, we provide OVD 1.0RC2 so it’s very close to the final version and has support for Windows applications delivery. Download the ISO and the documentation from the OVD download page.