Corona forces companies to work from home

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After panic buying in pharmacies, drugstores and supermarkets, the Corona virus has reached the software industry. Software dealer VENDOSOFT already recorded an increase in demand for Remote Desktop Service CALs by 20 percent last week. Since Monday of this week, demand from companies has continued to skyrocket.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is overseas chinese in worldwide data an umbrella term for a function of Microsoft Windows servers that allows users to access data and Windows applications remotely. RDS is used to establish a connection to the servers in the company's own network from a remote location. Anyone who sends their employees to work from home needs these access licenses for licensing purposes.

The increased demand does not come as a surprise to the reseller of new and used software . According to VENDOSOFT managing director Björn Orth, the stocks are full. Only with older - and therefore particularly cheap - versions such as the Microsoft Windows Server 2016 RDS CAL or its predecessor from 2008 - are there already slight bottlenecks due to the increased demand.