**Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, providing
businesses with quicker, cheaper deployment and easier applications
management**

November 19th 2008 - Following its commitment to desktop
virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the
first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for
enterprises. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management
for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily
into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The
solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich
desktop applications to corporate users.

Virtual desktops help reduce end user desktop TCO, but businesses can
go much further with the open source Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop
Solution:

Ulteo enters the corporate market as a pure Open Source player, and
leverages the experience it acquired during the past two years with
virtualization products & services that were previously offered on
their own servers.

The Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is a great solution for corporations
who want to reduce the Total Costs of Ownership of the end user
desktop, a cost that cripples IT budgets. Moreover, the Ulteo open
source business model remove the typical upfront licence fee and
replace it with a much more affordable subscription support plan
instead. “With Ulteo businesses save money even in the first year of
virtual desktops deployment and that counts in the current economic
environment” says Thierry Koehrlen, CEO and co-founder of the
company.

The Ulteo solution also helps IT departments to increase the end
users systems uptime and mobility and therefore their productivity:

“This first version of the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is great for
all the companies who are seeking to leverage open source applications
and Linux within a Linux or a Windows environment. And in February
2009, Windows applications will be available too, integrated into a
unified interface" Koehrlen advises.

Ulteo makes virtual desktops easier for the IT department:

Ulteo's solution has been designed with a radical approach: in
particular, no installation is needed on the Desktop client, and
nothing has to be replaced or modified in the existing infrastructure.

IT administrators appreciate the simplified quick installation,
configuration and deployment process of the Ulteo virtual desktops.
They also appreciate the value of accessing to the code so that the
solution can be customized to fit even better their specific needs.

Advanced features include a full administration console, desktop
sharing, application server replication and many others.

The Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is ready for business:

The product has already served more than 140,000 desktop sessions
over the last few months and has been tested through external Proof of
Concepts with some early adopters’ organisations. “So we are very
excited to share it now with the rest of the world and to expand the
community of users and developers around it” reports Gael Duval, CTO
and co-founder of Ulteo.

Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop is Open-Source and IT departments have the
choice to either use the free version with community support, or
benefit from commercial licensing terms that offers extended support
to organizations wishing to enter a commercial and privileged
relationship with Ulteo.

For more information please go to

http://www.ulteo.com

Media enquiries:

Please contact press at ulteo dot com

About Ulteo:
Ulteo is and Open Source Enterprise Virtual Desktop and Application
Delivery Solution co-founded by veteran open source entrepreneurs
Gaël Duval (founder of Mandrake Linux, a popular Linux distribution)
and Thierry Koehrlen (co-founder of Intalio, the leading Open Source
BPMS). http://www.ulteo.com



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