The long tail

Chris Anderson delivered a bestseller by calling pareto distribution a long tail.

Here is an attempt to apply the long tail concept to the desktop/app delivery market.

PC is an application container. A desktop under your desk, a thin client backed up by a blade PC in the datacenter, a thin client backed up by terminal services or Citrix based applications, application streaming to a real or virtual desktop and virtual desktop infrastructure are some of the ways to access applications.

With VDI, the tail in the desktop market has to get longer. Some startups are also going to stretch the tail.


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