By now, everyone has heard the terms desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It seems we’ve been pounded with marketing propaganda about these technologies from companies like VMware, Citrix and Microsoft since 2006. But if desktop virtualization is so good, why are most of the world’s desktops still “old-style” physical desktops and laptops?

And that’s particularly true in the context of high-end, graphically intensive UNIX and Linux engineering applications. Many people view desktop virtualization and VDI as an edge solution geared more toward simple Microsoft Windows-based, Microsoft Office-like applications. But many hardcore engineering apps run on UNIX, with the incorrect perception being that they require “real” engineering workstations and aren’t appropriate for VDI.

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