Remote desktop vs. remote display

This isn't some corner case were you have some developers wanting to run their tools from home. Nor is this the case were some guy wants to remote desktop to finish up on work on their down time in the weekend. (which are both common enough), but this is _everybody_. We are talking about thousands of users in a geographically diverse business in nearly half a dozen different countries and spread all over the USA using applications hosted in virtual machines in a couple specific datacenters.

Now that being said the 'remote desktop' is by far the most common use case that you are likely to run into for remote desktop computing. All you have to do is look at the success of things like 'Gotomypc' and such things to realize that there are probably more Windows users using remote desktop applications in a single large city then there has been people that used X11 to remote applications in all of time and space.