Sun had SunRay terminals with smartcards that allowed users to seemlessly move from terminal to terminal. It was a solution that would have been revolutionary if Microsoft had implemented it in Windows. Being Solaris only means that only a few of us ever saw what could be done and how easy logins and moving from terminal to terminal could be.
It's still a joke that all systems don't hang off their AD/LDAP/jumpcloud/whatever though.
What do you mean? That some other NHS systems have their own directory of users, or there is a master user/pass shared by everyone?
Sure you’d still not have SSO, but you could just let everything running, logged in, in your session on the server.
Why any organisation would choose to deploy regular desktops if this option exists, and why wouldn’t someone like the NHS not already be using this?
We all say "The NHS", but it's made up of a bunch of different companies.
https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nh...
135 acute non-specialist trusts (including 84 foundation trusts)
17 acute specialist trusts (including 16 foundation trusts)
54 mental health trusts (including 42 foundation trusts)
35 community providers (11 NHS trusts, 6 foundation trusts, 17 social enterprises and 1 limited company)
10 ambulance trusts (including 5 foundation trusts)11
7,454 GP practices12
853 for-profit and not-for-profit independent sector organisations, providing care to NHS patients from 7,331 locations13* Nobody likes Citrix, even (or particularly) when they use it every day. The amount of compromises and hoops that app developers have to consider to deploy on it, is significant.
Entire companies run on remote desktop. It's the industry standard, at least here in Germany. I'm working with a lot of enterprise customers and I never heard about particular security concerns with RDP. If anything, the protocol has an excellent security track record.