mRemote and vRD

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===Hello mRemote users!===
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In May 2008 I announced that I had to make a decision to continue providing you with updates to mRemote. The amount of work to provide these updates and the support work increased with every new release and as this was a free-time project it eventually became unmanageable.

So I posted an informational text and a small survey to see if I could go with a commercial model. The responses to this were incredible and I was pleasantly surprised that so many voted for a commercial variant, so thanks for that! Unfortunately this approach is risky as the responsibility for support and future development would have steadily increased and eventually would have become unmanageable for me again.

After I posted my idea of commercializing mRemote, visionapp came up to me and we had a nice talk about another option. The idea was to combine mRemote and visionapp Remote Desktop to create an even better "remote connections manager" and then morph the tools to build the ultimate "Admin-Toolbox". Knowing that visionapp already successfully commercialized their freeware visionapp Remote Desktop ("vRD") that initially sold under the name "vRD 2008" I was immediately into this. I mean, visionapp has a lot of experience in this field and the direction they want to take their product fits my plans with mRemote perfectly. 

Since both, the chemistry between the people at visionapp as well as the future plans for mRemote and me fit very well I decided to strengthen visionapp's development division with my ideas, experience and motivation and to '''merge mRemote with visionapp Remote Desktop'''.

What now emerges is a "Best-of" RDP-Tool of the most prevalent RDP-Tools. All future development will be directed to "visionapp Remote Desktop" which means that mRemote development will come to a halt. We want to merge the power of both tools to one better tool for all and not provide you with two tools, which are equal.

visionapp already incorporated many of mRemote's unique features in '''vRD 2009''' and continued to do so also with the current version [http://www.vRD2010.com/|vRD 2010].{BR}
This includes multi-protocol-support (VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/S), the possibility to integrate external applications and many features I planned for upcoming releases such as...

* better database storage option
* credential management
* better password encryption and general security
* reporting functionality
* administrative permissions to grant or even restrict access to objects
* integrated News and Updates web page for additional information specifically for the administrator

...are already part of [http://www.vRD2010.com/|vRD 2010].

visionapp also provides a freeware-version of their product vRD 2010. This includes basic functionality to manage your servers effectively but if you need more power I encourage you to take a look at the 30 days trial version of [http://www.vRD2010.com/|vRD 2010], which offers the whole feature set of the full version – only limited by the max. export of 15 connections..

I really hope you understand my decision and recognize the added benefit in terms of a jointly developed '''"Best Of"-(remote) admin tool sets''', instead of two competing remote desktop tools.

I’m looking forward to reading your feedback and hope that the enthusiasm you had for mRemote will carry on to visionapp Remote Desktop. Also, I will of course still be there waiting for your wishes and requirements you have for this product so we can integrate those.{BR}
If you actually have some ideas, please post them directly in the [http://forum.visionapp.de/|visionapp Remote Desktop Forum].
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Many thanks for your longtime loyalty and the help for making this tool what it is today!{BR}
''Felix Deimel''