>>> As far as I'm aware, Citrix is a completely different product made by a
>>> completely different company. Terminal Services is just another instance
>>> of the general RDP protocol.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services
>>
>> Terminal Services most definitely *is* RDP. So is Remote Assistance.
>> Exactly as I claimed.
>
> So did I. the part that you describes as "where you have an expensive
> server-class version of Windows, you install all your complicated
> applications on that, and then end users use their Windows-based desktop
> PC to log into the server and run the applications on that."
>
> Is what I said was not Terminal Services. It may be technically possible
> to do it via Terminal Services, but most entreprises who will require
> this will use Citrix.

Well, this is how *all* of the applications where I work are deployed. 
And as far as I can tell, it works just fine. (Modolo the occasional 
stupid glitches, of course...)

> Read the sentence just below the one where you pasted this from. I was
> mistaken in thinking that they had been bought, but they are indeed in
> bed with Microsoft.

OK, sure. Novell too, I gather...

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