Participate in the Summer Ulteo Community Actions!

Dear Ulteo community user,

As you know, Ulteo is an Open Source project which means that each Community contribution such as project needs, product feedback, translation, debugging, more platform testing, etc. is a benefit to both the product and all its users.

The launch of our Ulteo v2.5 has been a great success: good coverage, good feedback, more and more organizations and partners plan to adopt it.

Now we want to go further, and establish Ulteo as the leading Open Source virtual desktop and application delivery solution for the IT department by helping more organizations to adopt it.

You can play a role in that adventure by providing both translation of the Ulteo OVD and success stories/use cases around it.

1. More Ulteo translations:

Today thanks to great contributors and a well organized engineering infrastructure we have the Ulteo OVD available in English, Russian, French, Japanese, Spanish and Italian.

Let’s increase the number of languages! For example:

• German, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Greek, Dutch, Nordic
  countries languages, and a couple of additional Eastern countries like
  Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, etc. for now.
• other desired/requested languages request from the community:
  Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc.

But this list is no limited, you can suggest and translate to more languages!

If you want to contribute a language for Ulteo products or documentations, get in touch with us by email at: translations @ ulteo dot com

2. Ulteo OVD use cases/success stories:

As an Open Source company, we tend to minimize the marketing and sales pitch to focus on the product. But we get many requests for project references/stories for different types of organizations that would like to know that another organization like them are using Ulteo, and how.

For those who are using Ulteo OVD in a pilot project, proof of concept or in production please contact us, Gaël or Thierry, by email at: usecase @ ulteo dot com

Also we would appreciate “specific support references” if you are interacting or have interacted with our support team. Please share your support experience. Your reference can be personal, but ideally on behalf of your company.

We have been already working on our v3.0 that will include a couple of big changes that our community of users and partners have requested.

We will keep you aware regularly this special program summer about new Community Actions on Twitter http://twitter.com/Ulteo and Ulteo blog at http://blog.ulteo.com

Gaël & Thierry,

http://www.ulteo.com

Ulteo OVD v2.5 brings scalability to address IT departments need to manage much larger desktop deployments and application delivery projects. Read the press-release and download now!

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft. We are working on a tigther integration with their products to build a better combined solution of Ulteo + Windows. With Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) you can deliver both Linux and/or Windows applications world as the same time leveraging Windows Server TS.

Read the Press Release at: http://www.ulteo.com/home/news/2010/06/08
– The Ulteo Team

Hi! we are updating the OVD 2.x branch with the 2.5 beta1 release. It is now ready for download for beta testers! This release is a scalability-focused update of OVD 2.0.3 for large Ulteo deployements, though including some new features and bug fixes. All information about downloading and reporting bugs is available at: http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/ovdi/openvirtualdesktop/download2.5

We are waiting for your feedback!

Gaël.

Just learned that Phil Lavigna, author of the nice ulteoadmin.com website has passed away on April, 1st. Phil was a very talented, humble and perfectionist guy. He wrote several books on Linux, including “Test driving Linux” at O’Reilly. Phil will be missed a lot. All our thoughts go to his family.

Gaël.

We see OIN license as one of the key methods through which open source innovators can deter patent aggression. Read more.

Gaël

Due to infrastructure changes at the main Ulteo server hosting company, several servers will be down tonight, including our main web server and mail server from 25 Feb 2010 22:30 -> 26 Feb 2010 7:30. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Gaël.

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