Seems like "virtual" is perhaps the wrong way to label the posting and is being miss-used in the title, they are really multi-station or multi-seat desktops. Up to ten monitors and keyboards per PC. No Server Required. In fact many of the schools are in remote rural locations:
http://www2.userful.com/company/linux-desktop-virtualization
Looks (from the press release) http://www2.userful.com/company/linux-desktop-virtualization like 18,000 seats have already been deployed and are running well. And the budget has already been allocated and system vendors have won the auctions to supply the hardware.
Novell, Userful & Omni have sponsored an initiative to get Linux desktops into schools wherein schools essentially get free computers (up to 30) as you can run up to 10 off one PC.
http://www.omni-ts.com/linux-desktop/education.html
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Seems like "virtual" is perhaps the wrong way to label the posting and is being miss-used in the title, they are really multi-station or multi-seat desktops. Up to ten monitors and keyboards per PC. No Server Required. In fact many of the schools are in remote rural locations: http://www2.userful.com/company/linux-desktop-virtualization
Looks (from the press release) http://www2.userful.com/company/linux-desktop-virtualization like 18,000 seats have already been deployed and are running well. And the budget has already been allocated and system vendors have won the auctions to supply the hardware.
Novell, Userful & Omni have sponsored an initiative to get Linux desktops into schools wherein schools essentially get free computers (up to 30) as you can run up to 10 off one PC. http://www.omni-ts.com/linux-desktop/education.html