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Sometimes, it takes timing for technologies to takeoff. Unless you've been living under a mainframe, you know that VDI is the hottest ticket flying, and a natural extension of virtualization. Some environments benefit greatly with substantially reduced end-point TCO, such as medical, hospitality, higher-education and financial sectors. For engineering, graphic design and other intensive tasks, it may be best to stick with higher-performance workstations, similar to not virtualizing bare-metal OLTP database and dense Exchange clusters.
For highly-mobile roles, such as external auditors and consultants, productivity and collaboration tools similar to Groove and Skype work better from laptops, tablet pcs and mobile devices than network-dependent VDI. Workflow for knowledge workers using smart phones is right around the corner. I would check out Dexterra and similar for this type of mobile solution.
