Managed Service Provider Hosts Ubuntu Linux Desktops

Midas Networks, a managed service provider, thinks it has found the magic touch in a new market. The Austin, Texas-based MSP is starting to offer customers hosted/virtualized Ubuntu Linux desktops as an alternative to Microsoft desktops. Here’s the scoop.

For those who’d like a little background, Ubuntu is a fast-growing Linux distribution offered by Canonical. In some ways, it’s a desktop, server and mobile alternative to Red Hat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux. News of Midas Networks‘ strategy surfaced in a press release earlier today from Virtual Bridges, maker of the VERDE 2.0 virtualization software system.
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