The virtual destkop evolves: Representing the next evolutionary phase of virtualization, desktop virtualization products are giving organizations a way to securely and inexpensively push application and data via VMs to users. Contributing Editor Randall C. Kennedy had a chance to examine a trio of desktop virtualization products: Kidaro Managed Workspace 1.0, Sentillion vThere 2.0, and separately, a beta of VMwa The virtual destkop evolves: Representing the next evolutionary phase of virtualization, desktop virtualization products are giving organizations a way to securely and inexpensively push application and data via VMs to users. Contributing Editor Randall C. Kennedy had a chance to examine a trio of desktop virtualization products: Kidaro Managed Workspace 1.0, Sentillion vThere 2.0, and separately, a beta of VMware’s ACE 2.0. Randall’s overall assessment: “Both Kidaro Managed Workspace and Sentillion vThere offer excellent, base-level management functionality that matches or beats VMware’s ACE offering.” Check out his reviews to find out why.Pentaho and OpenOffice unite: Matt Asay, in the Open Sources blog, discovers that the Pentaho reporting engine will be integrated in the next iteration of OpenOffice. That means that users will be able to create reports with content from the OpenOffice.org Base database as well as a wide range of proprietary and open source relational databases, OLAP and XML sources. “I think this is really cool, and demonstrates the power of the open source development and distribution model. It also fulfills the promise of open source business intelligence,” Matt writes. Technology Industry