Last night was a pretty fun night.  Jonathan Webster and I got to speak on VDI, something we are both pretty passionate about.  We showcased the big players in the field--Pano, Citrix XenDesktop, and VMWare View--to a good crowd in downtown Charleston for an AITP event.  All of these products are outstanding and deserve at least a Google search, at most full adoption, and somewhere in the middle a proof of concept.  Jonathan and I have spent countless hours working on these technologies because we believe they are the future for businesses both big and small.  It just makes too much sense, as there is nothing to maintain at the end user's desk, yet the user's expereince looks and feels like a full rich desktop experience, from 3-dimensional AutoCAD to Google Earth.  And the cost savings can be found everywhere.  For those of you doing virtualization in your data-center you already know how virtualizing saves time, money, and just makes an administrators life easier.  Imagine doing the same thing for all of your desktops.  In my own labs on outdated equipment I've seen Vista run better through a terminal then it runs on the laptop I'm on right now.  I've personally setup and used a terminal that within 10-seconds of hitting the power button I had a full Vista desktop ready to rock and roll.  I've shown customers how changing a simple User Group in Active Directory can move a user from XP to Vista, or Office 2003 to 2007.  This stuff rocks, if you are an administrator Google this stuff and you can get the demos for free and start playing immediately.  I highly recommend it.  Else, give me a call at eGroup and let's talk about you getting a POC rolling, it's one of my favorite things to do, because I can show you the cool technologies of tomorrow running today.