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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:42:46 +0000

[...] Iqbal Gandham founder of Net4india,india’s only listed player in web hosting and solutions space.more on Nivio. This could be a good signal for Indian broadband and pc scenario in the days to come which is [...]

By: Deepti

Deepti — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:29:02 +0000

Can someone please guide me, who are the other players in the indian market providing services similar to Nivio. I guess one is sify anywhere… who ae the others this concept seems to be exiting

By: www.webyantra.net»Blog Archive » (Psuedo) WebOS Jooce launches from Paris… clearly has India on its radars

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:11:20 +0000

[...] A few weeks back, I wrote about Nivio, which is another online desktop/Web OS product from a Delhi based startup. Nivio’s positioning however, is very different from that of Jooce. Nivio tries to replicate your Windows desktop on the web; its user interface mimics Windows and it supports a much larger set of applications including MS Office, free IM clients like yahoo, Gtalk and other installable software (on a paid basis). Jooce on the other hand does not try to replicate the regular desktop at all. It is like a shell within the desktop, but with its own UI and a lesser emphasis on regular desktop softwares. I must add that Jooce is much faster in usage than Nivio (by an order of magnitude) because of a couple of reasons- it is lightweight and its client is written in Flash (Novio’s client is Java applet based, if I remember correctly). Posted on: August 23rd, 2007 … [...]

By: Dango

Dango — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:55:12 +0000

Or…I don’t need a computer at all! Just a Television with a browser, wireless keyboard and mouse, and I’ve got a computer! So…I pay the cable company my monthly fee and for $4.00 extra I have a computer that is always fast, always up to date, never has viruses or spyware, and has the latest apps, and games I subscribe to. Sweeeet.

By: rockingturtle

rockingturtle — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:36:23 +0000

For all practical purposes how is this different from having rdesktop or Nx client or citrix or whatever to a personalized vmware (or any other virtualization tool) image hosted else where. As put by the author the working was jerky on 256Kbps connection. I have had better experiences with NX client connecting to my desktop in office from home.. works awesomely at lesser speeds.

The only advantage I can see is that you dont need to install a rdesktop client.. which is hardly a compelling reason.

I also quite agree with Venkat’s views.. the next could actually be to provide some kind of dumb terminal hardware…

None the less I feel the guys at nivio must have thought about all this and probably I am missing a bigger picture.

-=turtle=-

By: jm

jm — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:29:35 +0000

how is this different from moka5: http://www.moka5.com/

By: venkataramana madugundu

venkataramana madugundu — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:00:56 +0000

Well, I have evaulated quite a few software products for a large financial institution. There were many firms offering hosted desktop solutions (either through native Microsoft RDP or the wrappered Citrix and so on). But the enterprise architects were not happy with the scaleup capabilities of those solutions.

So the NIVIO, as I see, is not a new kid in reality. A critic review would be…

FOR HOME USERS: The very idea of having to possess a PC to access a PC is not promising atleast for a home-user. Microsoft office can always be substituted with the free and fantsatic StarOffice. What else does a home user needs?

FOR GUYS IN SOFTWARE BUSINESS: They always carry a laptop to showcase demonstrations. If not there are firms like RUNAWARE who host virtual demonstrations. Microsoft uses RUNAWARE for showcasing their OFFICE product suite.

FOR STUDENTS IN INDIA: First of all, they dont need a virtual desktop. They can get all sorts of free applications which can do work for them. They dont need a desktop on roaming.

But from a positive side, I can see NIVIO can be a hit when NIVIO itself can offer me as part of rental:

1. A notebook like device (like a DishTV DTH settop box:-)) which can just connect to NIVIO with no additional internet service provider in between. I would say it should connect wirelessly like a DTH antenna.

2. Allow bidirectional file-tranfer from external media and the virtual box.

3. Ofcourse allow me to browse internet on the NIVIO box.

Thanks
Venkat